A panicked Richard and Janiece West were glued to the radio as they drove to College Station on Nov. 18, 1999. The Bellaire couple hadn’t heard from their 19-year-old son since they woke up that ...

Comstock was the last victim of the collapse to be carried alive from the stack. The other 26 students injured that night at Bonfire had been removed, but Comstock was in a position of such risk ...

Monday marks 25 years since the Aggie Bonfire collapse. 12 people were killed at 27 others were injured while constructing the annual bonfire at Texas A&M University.

Editor’s note: A&M’s decision to not bring back an on-campus Bonfire is The Eagle’s No. 10 news story of 2024. This is part ...

An investigative report cited multiple causes for the collapse, from flawed construction techniques to a lack of supervision by the university over the students building the bonfire stack.

Most of the current students at A&M were in elementary or middle school when the stack went down. Comstock was the last victim of the collapse to be carried alive from the stack. The other 26 students ...

The first, ominous sounds came from deep within the massive stack of logs in the darkest hours of the Texas night. Witnesses described hearing the stack of thousands of logs moan and creak before ...

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