"Dear Texas Tech Family, Wednesday (March 12) evening, an explosion occurred in a tunnel, causing a fire. The ...

Caitlynn Jeffries, a public information officer, for the Texas Tech Police Department, said the incident began around 7 p.m. with an explosion in a manhole near the engineering key in the central part ...

Watch the video of green flames coming up through a manhole cover following an underground explosion at Texas Tech.

An explosion at a substation caused power outages and prompted the evacuation of the university’s Engineering Key section Wednesday night, according to a copy of a university alert.

Texas Tech and Lubbock officials have provided a timeline and preliminary details as to what led to the overnight fires and explosions on campus.