The yellow crane was pretty much right behind me. I think that it held logs off the ground. That is what saved me from being crushed. Mandy Nakai, then a freshman who had climbed onto the stack just minutes before it collapsed. This is the fifth of a seven-part series of articles that will explore the great tradition of Bonfire through the generations and the fateful collapse of the structure last year that killed 12 and injured 27.
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