The Student Bonfire website announced Tuesday (November 26) that the stack site will be open Friday from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m.
But the fire will not be set until next year, after Texas A&M students return to school and when it is safe to burn.
Bonfire organizers learned the drought index used by the Texas A&M forest service was 638. The burn ban continues in Robertson County, where the bonfire stack is located, until the drought index falls below 575.
Bonfire spokesman Dion McInnis thanked Robertson County and forest service officials for their assistance “during this very precarious time with respect to the weather.”
McInnis invited visitors to the stack site on Friday to “have their photos taken and tell old Army stories”.
A reminder that there is a zero-tolerance, no-alcohol policy at the bonfire site. Anyone found with alcohol will be removed.
This is the fifth time Student Bonfire has been postponed, due to drought in 2010 and 2011 and flooding in 2013 and 2021.
Click below to hear comments from Dion McInnis, visiting with WTAW’s Bill Oliver.