Video shows green flames erupt following underground explosion on Texas Tech campus

The Texas Tech University field successful Lubbock remains closed aft a manhole detonation seemingly sparked a bid of fires astir field Wednesday night.

Video shows greenish flames coming up done a manhole screen adjacent the engineering cardinal successful the cardinal portion of campus.

Lawrence Schovanec, the university's president, said successful an email shared with the field assemblage precocious Wednesday nighttime that an detonation "occurred successful a tunnel, causing a fire." Schovanec said successful the email that the occurrence had been extinguished and that the origin remains nether investigation.

Lubbock Fire and Rescue said successful a station connected X Thursday greeting that they would stay connected the country successful a enactment relation until each imaginable hazards are mitigated and said it was "conducting atmospheric monitoring of subsurface inferior vaults."

The section reported that determination were nary injuries from the detonation Wednesday.

Texas Tech field unopen until aft outpouring break

Schovanec's email stated that the occurrence caused powerfulness outages and caused the assemblage to unopen down energy and state crossed some the Texas Tech and Health and Sciences Center campuses successful Lubbock to support the occurrence from spreading.

An exigency alert connected the university's website Thursday stated that portion the powerfulness has been restored to immoderate areas of campus, the assemblage remains closed Thursday and Friday and that students who unrecorded connected field volition person further connection regarding lodging and eating accommodations.

Schovanec announced the closure for the remainder of the week successful the Wednesday email and the schoolhouse is scheduled to commencement its outpouring interruption connected Saturday.

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected USA TODAY: Video shows greenish flames pursuing Texas Tech underground explosion