campus incidents

Areas to be avoided: Sunset Boulevard between Veteran and Hilgard avenues, parking structures 4 and 7, the intramural field and Drake Stadium.

The fire is burning away from campus and UCLA is outside the evacuation area.

UCLA will continue to monitor the Skirball Fire situation.

Though classes are canceled today all UCLA hospitals and clinics are open, and most other offices, departments and buildings across campus are conducting normal operations.

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block mourns the loss of William Klug, who earned his master’s degree at UCLA and was a member of the faculty since 2003.

Grief counselors are available to students, faculty and staff. Classes resume Thursday.

Update: Two adult males are confirmed dead in an engineering building at UCLA.

UCLA police have arrested a Los Angeles man in connection with the recent burglary of laptop computers from a campus library and the student union store.

Fifty-five laptop computers were stolen early Saturday morning from an equipment loan room. Police provided surveillance footage of a suspect.

Two facilities heavily used by UCLA students and intercollegiate athletic teams have reopened following completion of flood-damage repairs.

UCLA police are searching for a man who displayed a handgun to a student in Westwood early Friday morning.

The UCLA Foundation is providing funds to people whose vehicles were destroyed or seriously damaged in the flooding caused by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power water main break July 29.

UCLA has made emergency assistance and interest-free loans available to people whose vehicles were destroyed or seriously damaged in the flooding caused by the recent water main break.

UCLA Transportation reopened about 500 spaces in Parking Structure 4 to a limited number of permit holders today.

Parking structures have been declared safe for repairs. The damaged floor of Pauley Pavilion has been removed. Crews are working around the clock.

Despite coming face-to-face with their soaked cars for the first time, owners were calm and thankful for the assistance provided Tuesday by UCLA and insurance carriers.

Those vehicles with the most serious water intrusion — approximately 340 — have been relocated to the vicinity of Jackie Robinson Stadium on the West Los Angeles campus of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Sunset Boulevard has reopened.

About 300 vehicles that were in lower levels of flooded structures remain to be cleared for removal. Owners should await email instructions.

UCLA's chancellor acknowledges the UCLA family for coming together in the face of the challenges created by Tuesday's water main break.

The floor suffered water damage in the flooding that followed a major water main break under Sunset Boulevard just off campus on July 29.

First 267 cars affected by Tuesday's water main break are being moved to Lot 36 in Westwood Village.

As crews continue cleaning up from Tuesday’s water main break, Block thanks everyone for their patience, hard work, and generous assistance to their colleagues and strangers.

The latest information about UCLA following the July 29 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power water main break and campus flooding.

UCLA staff and students chip in to protect buildings, assist those stranded without cars and ease inconveniences for everyone in response to a water main break on Sunset Boulevard.

Campus crews and contractors worked throughout the night to remove water from UCLA buildings and clear debris. Officials pledge that Pauley Pavilion will be ready for basketball season.