There was confusion, but students we spoke to said it was a generally calm feeling once they left their dorm or classroom.

The campus of Texas Tech University will be closed Thursday and Friday, as well as all of next week for spring break, after a manhole explosion apparently sparked a series of fires around campus ...

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.

Texas Tech University in Lubbock is closed Thursday and Friday and students are advised to start Spring Break early after an explosion on campus and widespread power outages Wednesday night.

The campus in Lubbock faced multiple fires and power outages following an explosion on Wednesday, March 12 Gabrielle Rockson is a staff writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023 and ...

As the sun set on the Texas Tech campus ... Substation on campus, which caused massive outages to the university and its sister campus across the street — TTU Health Sciences Center.