{
  "id": "2026-04-15-montgomery-college-rockville-chilling-pipe-break-closures",
  "slug": "montgomery-college-rockville-chilling-pipe-break-closures-2026-04-15",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Montgomery College",
    "shortName": "MC",
    "state": "MD",
    "type": "community-college",
    "alertSystemName": "MC Alert / official X",
    "enrollment": 20000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2026-04-15",
    "endDate": "2026-04-17",
    "type": "facility-emergency",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "resolved",
    "headline": "MC Rockville chilling pipe break closes nine buildings (Apr 15-17, 2026)",
    "headlinePublic": "MC Rockville chilling pipe break closes nine buildings (Apr 15-17, 2026)",
    "summary": "Montgomery College [closed nine Rockville Campus buildings April 15-17 for a chilling-system pipe break amid high temperatures](https://x.com/montgomerycoll/status/2044199999014072429), while other buildings remained on normal schedules.",
    "outcome": "Nine named Rockville buildings closed three days; remainder of campus normal."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "2026-04-14",
      "channel": "twitter-x",
      "verbatimText": "MC Alert: Due to a pipe break in the chilling system and the current high temperatures, nine (9) buildings on the Montgomery College Rockville Campus will be closed Wednesday, April 15 through Friday, April 17, 2026. The affected buildings are: Campus Center (CC), Theater Arts Building (TA), Physical Education Center (PE), Academic Annex (CB), Paul Peck Art Building (AR), Music Building (MU), Gudelsky Institute for Technical Education (GU), South Campus Instruction Building (SB), Parilla Performing Arts Center (PA). Normal operations will continue as scheduled in all other campus buildings during this time.",
      "sourceUrl": "https://x.com/montgomerycoll/status/2044199999014072429",
      "sourceDescription": "MC Rockville pipe-break building closures",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "annotations": [
        "Verbatim from official @montgomerycoll X account. Bullet formatting flattened to commas."
      ],
      "characterCount": 614
    }
  ],
  "context": "Wider b214 MC residual facility emergency partial-campus close.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Building-list facility closure with partial-campus continuity."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "MC pipe break",
      "url": "https://x.com/montgomerycoll/status/2044199999014072429",
      "type": "official-social",
      "accessDate": "2026-07-26"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "community-college",
    "maryland",
    "facility-emergency",
    "wider-reach"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-07-26",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-26",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}