<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2Ik1eM_1Gubxpcl00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2Ik1eM_1Gubxpcl00" width="1200" height="801" ></figure><div style="position:relative;width:100%; height:0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N9K6xXP_OgA?enablejsapi=1&version=3&playerapiid=ytplayer" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" style="width:100%; height:100%;top:0; left:0; position:absolute"></iframe></div>Flooding in the basement of the Walters Academic Building caused by a fire supply line rupturing Monday morning pushed students out of class as facilities workers and University of Tennessee Police Department officers assessed the scene.“The university’s Facilities Services team responded quickly and briefly closed the building to assess the damage. The building is safe for occupancy and reopened by 11:45 a.m. at all levels except the basement,” Ryan Moore, UT Police Department public information officer, said. “While the fire suppression systems are offline, trained personnel will conduct continuous fire watch patrols to monitor the affected areas for signs of fire or unsafe conditions and promptly notify emergency responders if needed. Repairs in the basement remain ongoing.”Jake Meena, a senior cinema studies major, joined his 8 a.m. class on Zoom from a common area in the basement of the building and saw water creeping onto the floor out of the corner of his eye. When he looked down, he saw around an inch of cold water surrounding his feet.“When I first noticed it, I just heard water behind me,” Meena said. “I didn’t realize there was a problem until there was about an inch of water at my feet.”Meena began to exit the building as the water level reached about two inches, with water leaking out of doors and walls into the basement hallways. Meena said a maintenance worker advised him to leave the building.“I didn’t feel like I was in danger because I know the way out of that building,” Meena said.As reports of flooding came in, alarms in the building began to sound, and classes evacuated to outside the building.“Originally, no one told us to leave. There was just a loud ringing, and Dr. (Nicole) Eggers just advised us all to exit the building, like maybe it was a fire drill or something,” Tanner Welch, a junior history major, said. “Only a few classes followed. I saw other classes stay in there.”Welch’s history class with Eggers waited outside the building for an update.“We were a little taken aback. We were like, “Should we go? Should we not?’” Ben Vols, a junior history major in the same class as Welch, said. “We decided to go because everybody was going out.”Students left backpacks, laptops and personal belongings inside the building, expecting to be able to reenter the building before their class period ended at 10 a.m.“A lot of us left our stuff because this is run-of-the-mill at this point,” Welch said.Around 9:55 a.m., the building remained locked, but UT Police Department officers escorted students into their classroom on the second floor to retrieve their belongings.Welch experienced a similar issue on Oct. 19 during a class in Strong Hall when the building’s sprinkler system went off, pushing students out of class. Welch, who transferred to UT from Lee University, said UT’s alert systems and administrative officials have not been as consistent as those at Lee.“At my past university, those people were really on time, assessed the matter, sent out school-wide messages about problems and how they were gonna be addressed,” Welch said. “While being here, that has not happened, and it’s just a free will situation, and we have to figure things out on our own without getting to the problem at hand.”</div></body>

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Flooding in the basement of the Walters Academic Building caused by a fire supply line rupturing Monday morning pushed students out of class as facilities workers and University of Tennessee Police Department officers assessed the scene. “The university’s Facilities Services team responded quickly and briefly closed the building to assess...

Walters Academic Building basement floods, interrupts classes

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Flooding in the basement of the Walters Academic Building caused by a fire supply line rupturing Monday morning pushed students out of class as facilities 

Walters Academic Building basement floods, interrupts classes

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