Austin-area colleges explain ‘false’ emergency texts

AUSTIN (KXAN) — At 8:27 p.m. Wednesday, Lone Star College in Houston told students to evacuate a building because of a gas leak, but students at the University of Texas, St. Edward’s, Austin Community College and Texas State got it as well.
“It was very vague and Texas State University did not send this out,” said Jayme Blaschke from Texas State Communications. He says during the investigation, University Police found all the students who got the text went to Lone St