The extreme heat is continuing to impact people across Western Washington. The University of Washington’s Tacoma campus has cancelled in-person classes until further notice because its electrical system was damaged over the weekend.
UW said a fatal accident Saturday morning in the UWT Cragle Parking Lot caused severe damage to the campus electrical system, resulting in a campus-wide outage.
“I don’t think anybody can do their best learning or teaching in sub optimal conditions,” Griffin
McCullough, a student, said. “I checked my school email a couple of hours ago and I did not see anything in regards to that.” McCullough showed up to campus only to find his class was cancelled due to the outage. Drew Herget told us her mom who is a student, is also impacted.
“Usually on Tuesdays for the summer she attends class at this building right there and usually AC is pretty good when it …