The Engineering Key on the central part of the Texas Tech campus was evacuated and the university’s emergency operations center was activated after as officials reported gas odors and a utility outage on the campus.
It was not immediately clear what prompted the outage or utility issues. Lubbock Power & Light’s outage map showed an outage impacting about 40 customers across the campus. The cause of the outage was listed as “forced outage.”
The A-J has reached out to Tech campus police requesting additional details.
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