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.

Texas Tech University sent students on an early spring break after spurts of green flames shot out from manholes on campus on Wednesday night. The source was an explosion at a substation that caused widespread outages across campus and the university's Health Sciences Center.

Lubbock Fire Rescue says there are no injuries reported at this time in an explosion at a substation on Texas Tech’s campus on Wednesday night. LFR says the area is still an active site, though.Texas Tech posted Thursday morning that power has been restored to some areas on campus,