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Prior Major Incidents on Campus

  • 3/14/2023  Power outage on campus, SRWC, SLAC
  • 1/22/2023  Limited campus power outage
  • 12/31/2022  Flooding across campus
  • 9/25/2022 Main Campus Power Outage
  • 6/21/2022 Main Campus Power Outage
  • 3/30/2022  ChemH/Neuro smoke alarm evacuation incident
  • 2/24/2022  Lokey fume hood fire and sprinkler flooding
  • 2/22/2022  Transformer failure, multi-building power outage
  • 2/21/2022  Lokey sodium fire
  • 2/2/2022  14-second power drop
  • 8/23/2021  Varian Physics confined pit fire
  • 7/13/2021 Registrar deactivation of grad students
  • 2020-2022  COVID-19 response
  • 9/7/2020  Beckman electrical transformer fire and partial campus power outage
  • 8/19/2020  Fairchild electrical transformer failure and partial campus power outage
  • 10/25/2019  Wildfire smoke outdoor air quality issues 
  • 10/15/2019  Partial campus power outage
  • 8/22-25/2019  Chilled water curtailment
  • 6/19/2019  Clark Center fire and sprinkler flooding
  • 6/10-13/2019  Chilled water curtailment
  • 10/24/2018  Bass Biology electrical transformer failure and partial campus power outage
  • 6/25/2018 SLAC grass fire
  • 3/28/2018  Arastradero shooter incident
  • 2/14/2018  Law School white powder incident
  • 2018  Ebola
  • 10/12/2017  Napa fires smoke
  • 9/5-6/2017  Chilled water curtailment
  • 6/19-23/2017  Chilled water curtailment
  • 3/11/2017  Fire at Edwards
  • 6/30/2016  Microsoft 365 Outage (7:30am - 4:00pm)
  • 11/28/2015  Campus-wide chilled water outage
  • 11/30/2015 Porter Dr. hand grenade
  • 10/15/2015  Power/cooling issues at Press, East, West ECHs
  • 10/12/2015  Partial campus power outage and fire at Maples
  • 8/14/2015  Bomb threat at GSB
  • 5/14/2015  Partial campus power outage due to nearby lightning strike at PG&E substation
  • 8/26/2014  Edwards seismic retrofit flooding
  • 8/23/2014 SLAC power outage
  • 6/3/2014 Power outage 
  • 4/29/2014 Bomb threat
  • 2/11/2014  Bomb threat at Tresidder
  • 11/10/2013 RWC fire/smoke response 
  • 7/21/2013  Security breach of Active Directory infrastructure
  • 12/10/2012  LPCH flood
  • 4/14/2011  Forsythe UPS 2 failure
  • 3/22/2011  Quad ECH Flood
  • 1/19/2010  Palo Alto plane crash
  • 4/14/2009  Ice plant failure
  • 2/15/2009  Campus Power Outage​​
Last modified February 26, 2024