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Originally Posted by Gerald
Great video.
I worked at the Texaco refinery back in the '70's and heard all the stories of the families that spent weeks preparing and building the firer. Back then there were few regulation, and the fires were much bigger.
A couple times I road down the river road just before Christmas to see the structures that were built, but never went to see the fires. Always heard it could take 2+ hours just to travel a few miles.
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My sister in law lives along the levee in Lutcher, she has first dibs on a spot for a bonfire. I helped my brother in law a few times and that is a lot of work. His dad told me they built some kind of large building about 30 years, after the drove the pilons they went back and picked up all the pieces that the pile driving company cut off and put made a huge fire with them, he said they burned till New Years.