Park evacuated after water pours from light fixture

Students were evacuated from Park Hall Friday afternoon, possibly due to a pipe burst. 

Water poured out of the ceiling under a Park Hall bridge as students left the residence hall around 4:30 p.m. Friday.

University Police Department, Muncie Fire Department and an ambulance arrived at the scene, but no one was available to comment or confirm that a pipe had burst.

Students waited in DeHority and Woodworth complexes until they could reenter the building around 4:45 p.m.

Senior biology major Christine Kincaid said several evacuated students thought a pipe had burst, but no one had given them any official information.

“I was asleep and the fire alarm went off,” she said. “The lower of the two bridges, there is water pouring out of the ceiling under the bridge.”

As of 5:15 p.m., no one at UPD could comment on the evacuation.

Freshman special education major Lindsey Scott said she spoke to a young woman who fainted during the evacuation, and that EMS personnel entered Woodworth with a stretcher to aid her.