A look back at the Texas A&M bonfire collapse, 20 years later

[@reigencansitonme]

Why is she smiling when people died at that moment

[@plotting6863]

okay I'm not going to lie... and I'm trying to be nice, but this was very weird and tone deaf. Like OVER half of this is just of her and she wasn't even there. The smiling is also very off putting.

[@dyn9mite]

Seems like she wanted to be part of this story just so she could talk about herself

[@davesykes1966]

I thought this was going to be about that terrible accident...But no, it's all about her, all of it me, myself & I.

[@RAVENIFICANT]

I thought the same. Maybe this is a clip from a multi-person account of that day. Idk 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@fredsmith6324]

can't say i like this, she's smiling too much, and making it too much about her. why did the station publish this, it's a fail.

[@CullenRTerry]

Good question

[@mcdonaldssprite-chan3202]

Made the whole incident about her and she wasn’t even there

[@r5t6y7u8]

Thumbs-down. Teresa, stop talking about yourself and tell us more about the Bonfire. You call yourself a reporter?

[@mariosola1]

Seems like a paid PR stunt. I am working with an TAMU retired professor currently and he explained this tragedy much much differently. Also explained to me that the University was sketchy about how they investigated the tragedy and the fact that the University President stayed in his position for another 4 years following this event.

[@stevetaylor9770]

Sickening reporter. Massive fail WFFA.

[@siobhansquigs]

I can’t watch as she’s smiling all the way through! This lady is meant to be a reporter! She needs serious additional training. So inappropriate.

[@michaelharkins48]

It's videos like this that make me wish I could still see the dislike button

[@johnsimmons8848]

yea, she's more interested in how she looks on camera. The smiling is awful. Check your ego.

[@katiewinters7380]

This woman is gross.

[@pamressler2058]

So sorry

[@penguinuprighter6231]

Ya..cults are dangerous.

[@_pawzl]

the lack of intelligence in this comment is just funny

[@penguinuprighter6231]

@@_pawzl Explain the wisdom of this activity

[@huzcer]

It was just a matter of time before this happened. America is so devoid of, yet so desperate for, "tradition" that they let this sort of thing fly.

[@lazer59]

My Dad witnessed it he was freshmen

[@richardv2141]

Who the hells idea was this ? Powers that be will not let me paint above 8 feet w/o a harness but they have this going on ??? Nuts .

[@vinyllpreviews9462]

I remember when this happened and I found out 12 people died I was like how? Then I see 19 year old kids working 50 feet in the air and moving logs into place with a crane. Oh, that's how. This just seemed like a complete disaster waiting to happen.

[@claylittlejohn1000]

A close friend of mine died in that incident my babysitter Miranda Adams

[@susshon4197]

why you never let aggies play with fire

[@johntexas8417]

Playing to the camera.

[@moonbot1683]

Wow what could go wrong?? Hmmm 🤔

[@claykuboviak6070]

Go to Aggie Bonfire (now off campus). It's much safer and more enjoyable

[@pmoney7571]

It was called Aggie Bonfire back then too. It's only off campus for legal reasons.

[@EighthHouseTarot]

she just wants attention

[@sagemaster3408]

Plus why is she smiling when she’s talking about the worst things

[@EighthHouseTarot]

@@sagemaster3408 who on earth would claim her? she seems like a person you would specifically not want to be anywhere with.

[@sagemaster3408]

This is true

[@smk9320]

what is an Aggie?

[@josephgarcia6102]

College team in texas

[@killat1293]

I think it’s a dog but as a longhorn fan I really don’t know 😅

[@rich5785]

@@killat1293 💀💀

[@korina482]

I also asked that to myself watching this. In my university, I am an Aggie. An aggie is a student taking up a course under the College of Agriculture. So Aggie came from "Agriculture". I heard that Texas A&M known for students whose parents are farmers. But I still don't know though if our Aggie is the same with their Aggie.🥴

[@korina482]

@@killat1293 I also asked that to myself watching this. In my university, I am an Aggie. An aggie is a student taking up a course under the College of Agriculture. So Aggie came from "Agriculture". I heard that Texas A&M is known for students whose parents are farmers. But I still don't know though if our Aggie is the same with their Aggie.🥴

[@cphank3722]

Although the cause of the collapse isn't talked about here, I disagree with commonly accepted failure of the center post. This was a teepee shape and the strength of such a structure relys on triangulation of the sides without a center post. Unless wood was not added evenly and equally during construction, straining the center post. This could not have happened as described. Cables or chains holding the stacked bundles into individual bundles seem a more likely cause. A center post wouldn't even be necessary in such a teepee.

[@scott1564]

It wasn't a teepee shape but a wedding cake configuration. I don't know if the centerpole failure was the cause or not (it did break) but one reason for the collapse was that the logs on the upper tiers were wedged into the lower ones. The current, off-campus, bonfire design has all logs touching the ground. It is still a wedding cake type config, but isn't quite as big. The old Aggie Bonfire design was the teepee shape, but that ended sometime in '70s, I believe, when they went to the configuration that worked until the collapse in '99. There was also a minor collapse with either no or few (insignificant) injuries in 1994 (I think) where they were able to reconstruct it quickly before the burn. I think had they taken the hint from 1994 and redesigned the stack, this event wouldn't have happened.

[@travisledbetter2506]

Lol, she bought a class ring.

[@rr7firefly]

Primal entertainment.

[@johnwaffleh2p70]

As a Pitt fan 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂