"It Takes a Fire to Finish a Robot" -Team 1468

[Matt C]

Well, tonight one of the strangest things that has ever happened to me during FIRST occurred . .

The school caught fire, and we were forced to evacuate . . one day before ship.





We moved all the equipment to a students house to resume putting the finishing touches on the robot.



Apparently approx. 500 gallons of oil spilled in the basement of the school due to a ruptured oil burner. Hazmat was on the scene when we returned to retrieve a few vehicles. There was extensive damage (though none to any of the main school building), and the school will most likely be closed for the rest of the week, if not longer.

I'm just grateful that this happened today and not sometime last week. Although I'd much rather it have happened tomorrow night . . AFTER the robot had shipped.

Edit: The robot was completed and tested as of 3 AM, being run in the basement of a local church. What started as a 2 day redesign of our shooter and harverster mechanisms turned into quite a production.