In light of last month’s manhunt in Boston, which included a shooting on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus, University emergency management officials have sought to increase awareness within the University community of responses to such “active threat” situations.
Pacific Gas and Electric’s (PG&E) work to replace Line 109, which runs along Page Mill Road, Junipero Serra Boulevard and Sand Hill Road, is expected to be completed by the end of April.
Two large gas pipelines buried along Junipero Serra Blvd. will be among the first sections updated under PG&E’s plan to test or replace aging pipelines.
Officials from Stanford’s Department of Environmental Health and Safety met with University leadership Monday to present newly drafted, institution-wide machine shop safety guidelines. The move, a departure from the University’s hands-off policy, was prompted by the April 11 death of a Yale senior Michele Dufault and Saturday’s after-hours fire at the Product Realization Lab.
Campus officials met with representatives of PG&E on Sept. 22 to continue discussions about a high-pressure PG&E gas pipeline running along Junipero Serra Boulevard, the University said in a statement last week.
Adequate measures are in place to prevent future danger, they said