LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - The fires on Texas Tech campus caused power outages across campus on Wednesday night, affecting buildings, facilities and dorms. Even students who weren’t near the explosion were affected. Jasper Shoesmith, a freshman who lives at Chitwood Hall, couldn’t believe what was happening when he came back from work.

LUBBOCK — An explosion inside a maintenance hole on the Texas Tech University campus in Lubbock set off fires and power outages, leading school officials to issue evacuation orders for several buildings and cancel classes for the rest of the week, university police said.

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.