BREAKING Explosion on UC Berkeley Campus

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UPDATE 1

Explosion on central campus is confirmed, and people are being directed to evacuate.

UPDATE 2

UCBerkeley officials declare emergency following explosion around California Hall

UPDATE 3

The Daily Califronian reports:

An explosion on campus around California Hall has injured an unconfirmed number of people, prompting officials to declare a campus emergency and order an evacuation of the campus around 6:40 p.m. Monday evening.

Berkeley Fire Department Chief Gil Dong said that he thought an underground electrical vault exploded at about 6:40 p.m. Emergency responders included four ambulances, fire trucks and multiple police units.

The explosion follows a campuswide power outage earlier Monday evening, which forced the evacuation of several campus buildings and left some people stuck in elevators.[...]The campus is currently looking into an attempted theft of copper from the campus high-voltage system, which may have led to the outage



UPDATE 4

Injuries reported.