Thread: Calling it good for today

That Randy has his stuff together and is def living right....life is good

Looks good Randy. Think I'm gonna come stay with you a while

Randy, do they still build big bon fires at A&M? You learned good man.

I'll answer that. No. I was there for fire school the last year they had one. Even walked around in it. They were constructing it and it was massive. Several truck load of logs. It fell the following week killing some students. As far as I know that was the last one. I have several diplomas from A&M, but they were for industrial fire fighting. Good school for training ,and I've been to several others. Mississippi Fire School outside of Jackson was also first class. Danny I googled it. In 1999 the structure reached 59 ft. with over 5000 logs. It collapsed at 2:42 am on Nov. 18. Killing 12 and injuring 27 students, who were working around the clock. This was a 90 year tradition.

Yep, still do - Thanksgiving eve, for the Thanksgiving day game. Huge, close to 100' tall. Even after the accident, they modified the procedure to build it. Thirteen students killed. Traditional for the annual A&M vs. Texas game. This year they are beginning a new tradition, A&M vs. LSU on Thanksgiving day. Both SEC teams agreed on it. Interesting for sure.

Okay, I went back and finished reading. A non sanctioned bonfire started in 2002 and is not on the campus. The lawsuit from the 1999 collapse was finally settled in 2008. Danny

Hey, Randy did you see Johnny make some new friends and wave to them during the game? lol

Where was that fire school Danny? Never went there - out near Easterwood airport? I learned to fly at Coulter Field west of town, had a N-S paved runway, and a E-W short field dirt runway. I remember landing on the N-S with stiff winds out of the west - had to stand on the left rudder coming in. Was finally allowed to fly out of Easterwood after initial training with bigger aircraft. Sure thought I was a big shot back then.