The Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office has ruled the March 2025 fires and explosions at Texas Tech University — that forced a mass evacuation of campus and lasting power outages — to be an accident.
SFMO investigator Sgt. Kelly Vandygriff points out that this accident “was solely an issue with the underground electrical service,” meaning the entire situation started with the electrical vaults under the campus’ Engineering Key.
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