Institution
San Diego State University
SDSUCAPublic R2SDSU Alert~37,000 students
- Cases
- 34
- Alerts
- 103
- Verbatim
- 100%
- Span
- 2020–2026
Official alert policy
How SDSU says it will alert: when and how SDSU Alert activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.
Case log
Every documented incident
34 cases · 103 of 103 alert messages verbatim-confirmed
2025
- fire: 2025-11-07Off-campus Calexico fire; campus open with lingering smokeemergency notificationverbatim
- utility failure: 2025-10-15Brawley buildings A and B lose power; classes stay in sessionemergency notificationverbatim
- utility failure: 2025-05-15Water leak knocks out power at Hostler and Storm Hall Westemergency notificationverbatim
- fire: 2025-04-16Library smoke from a faulty light fixture; both halls reopenedemergency notificationverbatim
- earthquake: 2025-04-14Julian quake felt on campus; drop, cover, hold; remain openemergency notificationverbatim
- utility failure: 2025-02-24Partial gas-line outage isolated; science buildings lose lab gasemergency notificationverbatim
2024
- utility failure: 2024-12-18Brief partial power outage; power fully restoredemergency notificationverbatim
- wildfire: 2024-10-31Off-campus brush fire closes Montezuma; campus stays openemergency notificationverbatim
- shooting: 2024-10-31Man shot at the campus transit center; two suspects arrested, evening events canceledemergency notification1 injuredverbatim
- utility failure: 2024-10-26City water outage on San Diego campus; later restoredemergency notificationverbatim
- police activity: 2024-10-17Stolen-vehicle pursuit at Montezuma and 55th; one in custodyemergency notificationverbatim
- utility failure: 2024-09-22Aztec Circle water-main break shuts four buildingsemergency notificationverbatim
- infrastructure failure: 2024-09-22Water main break shut off water to four buildings and closed a campus road for three daysadvisoryverbatim
- utility failure: 2024-08-15Science buildings lose utility power; later resolvedemergency notificationverbatim
- utility failure: 2024-07-25Northeast-side outage already restored at postingemergency notificationverbatim
- utility failure: 2024-07-23Calexico outage; remote work and Zoom until transformer repairedemergency notificationverbatim
- earthquake: 2024-02-12El Centro quakes; Imperial Valley open, no injuriesemergency notificationverbatim
- flooding: 2024-01-22Flash flood closes Alvarado Court and Canyon Crestemergency notificationverbatim
- utility failure: 2024-01-12City main break cuts campus water; later restoredemergency notificationverbatim
2023
- utility failure: 2023-10-08Six residential communities lose SDG&E poweremergency notificationverbatim
- hurricane: 2023-08-19Hilary flood warnings; IV virtual Monday, then resumeemergency notificationverbatim
- public health: 2023-02-13ENS building closed after Legionella pneumonia reportemergency notificationverbatim
2022
- utility failure: 2022-10-04West-side partial outage; later restoredemergency notificationverbatim
- fire: 2022-09-08Vehicle fire closes Canyon Crest at Parking 12emergency notificationverbatim
- utility failure: 2022-08-24Bird contact at Murray substation cuts campus poweremergency notificationverbatim
- utility failure: 2022-05-07Overnight west-side outage; Chapultepec on emergency poweremergency notificationverbatim
- utility failure: 2022-04-20West-side regional outage restored the same eveningemergency notificationverbatim
- utility failure: 2022-03-23Intermittent utility fluctuations hit campus buildingsemergency notificationverbatim
- fire: 2022-02-03Brush fire near Parking Structure 4 containedemergency notificationverbatim
2021
- police activity: 2021-11-22Stolen box truck crashes into P7 wall after pursuitemergency notificationverbatim
- utility failure: 2021-09-29Regional outage cuts campus water; later restoredemergency notificationverbatim
- fire: 2021-05-20Brush fire near College and I-8 closes Alvarado Roademergency notificationverbatim
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