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Texas Tech University closes campus ahead of spring break

Update: Texas Tech closes campus ahead of spring break after fires, explosion

"Dear Texas Tech Family, Wednesday (March 12) evening, an explosion occurred in a tunnel, causing a fire. The fire spread, leading to outages on the Texas Tech campus. Electricity and gas were shut down across both the Texas Tech and Health Sciences Center campuses in Lubbock to keep the fire from spreading further.

Austin American-Statesman · 4d

Texas Tech University closes campus ahead of spring break after explosion triggers fires

Texas Tech University's campus will be closed the rest of this week after a manhole explosion apparently triggered a series of fires around campus.

The Texas Tribune on MSN · 4d

Texas Tech officials trying to determine what caused explosion and fires that prompted campus closure

A day after the incident in which green flames could be seen coming out of manholes, 40% of the university in Lubbock remains without power.

KCBD4d

Texas Tech students describe evacuation of campus

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD ... from his dorm room. “To grab all my stuff pretty much spend the night at a friend’s place,” Williams said. In the 10 p.m. hour, Tech announced students who live ...

The Daily Toreador4d

Emergency housing resources available to students

Spring break bus services are being arranged at an earlier time following the impromptu evacuation of Texas Tech on Wednesday ...

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