BCIT Burnaby campus buildings evacuated due to ‘natural gas incident’
Posted September 20, 2023 4:48 pm.
Two buildings on BCIT’s Burnaby campus were evacuated Wednesday due to a ‘natural gas incident,’ the school said in a post on X.
“Due to a reported natural gas incident on the BCIT Burnaby Campus, we are currently evacuating buildings SE14 and SE16,” it said.
“The BCIT community is not in immediate danger,” it said. “More information will be communicated as it becomes available.”
Due to a reported natural gas incident on the BCIT Burnaby Campus, we are currently evacuating buildings SE14 and SE16. A map of the affected buildings is included below. The BCIT community is not in immediate danger. More information will be communicated as it becomes available. pic.twitter.com/By9bW3VDw7
— British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) (@bcit) September 20, 2023
A further post from the school said the buildings will remain evacuated for the rest of the day and won’t reopen until Thursday, at which point they will reopen for regular business hours.
CityNews has reached out to BCIT for comment.
More to come.
