The ongoing California drought claims another victim - The Big Game Bonfire.
Sources tell CGB that this year's Big Game Rally will be a little bit different. The 2015 Big Game Rally will "include pyrotechnics, fire show and student performances, but not a traditional Bonfire."
We received the following statement from the UC Rally Committee chairman Shreyas Chand:
Due to the ongoing drought and the extreme dryness of the Berkeley hills, the determination was made by the State and Campus Fire Marshall's offices that the risk posed by burning a wooden structure such as the Bonfire so close to the hills was far too great this year.