Texas Tech and Lubbock Fire Rescue officials were confirming an ongoing evacuation near the campus' engineering key as well as outages across the Tech and Texas Tech Health Sciences Center campuses following several fires and a power substation explosion Wednesday evening.

An underground explosion on the Texas Tech campus, with neon green substance, has forced Texas Tech University to close campus ahead of spring break.

An explosion at a manhole on the Texas Tech University campus on March 12 caused fires and widespread power outages. No injuries were reported. The university evacuated several buildings, cancelled classes for the week,