Photograph of men standing in debris spraying water at the Burris Lumber Company fire.

Photograph of firemen spraying water at the Southern Land and Lumber Company fire in Beaumont, Texas. There is lumber on the ground, and more firefighters are visible in the background.

Photograph of a group of firemen standing on top of a pile of wood at the Southern Land and Lumber Company in Beaumont, Texas.

Photograph of a group of five men holding a water hose at the Southern Land and Lumber Company in Beaumont, Texas.

Photograph of men at a Texas Fire Department Instructors Conference, sitting in front of a building with cars in the background. Several men in the front row are identified as E. W. Parker, Monk Owens, Oscar Goodrich, B. J. Korman, Burns Caldwell, Frank Gallaway, Benjamin Huron, R. Roy Simmons, and Bill Willis. Those in the second row are Frank McKinney, Johnnie O'Brien, August Oertli, Paul Andrews, an unknown man, John Ballew, unknown, G. I. Powell, and three more unidentified men. Those in the third row are Glen Warranstaff, G. C. Adams, Bill McMeans, R. D. Mace, John Woody, four unknown men, Jerome Schawb, Henry D. Smith, Henry Timmerman, Morbert Koonce, Otis Muenster, and Paul R. Williams. Those in the back row are A. L. "Gus" Cartwright, L. O. Bynam, Dick Rowland, Adolf Solmkey, A. L. Rathke, and W. J. Henderson. One of the men in the fifth row is D. C. Musick, and three of the men in the top row are H. R. Brayton, Bob Dodson, and Harvey Peyton.

Photograph of three men attaching cables or chains to a structure. The structure is a narrow and scaffold-like and there are trees in the background. The back of the photo reads, "1948, Johnny Southwell, Earl Fillingame, "Blackie" Corden."

Photograph of firefighters spraying water at large piles of lumber on fire at the Southern Land and Lumber Company in Beaumont, Texas. A building is visible to the right.

Photograph of men standing in debris spraying water at the Burris Lumber Company fire.

Photograph of a building on fire in the distance at the Burris Lumber Company in Beaumont, Texas. There are concrete cylinders in the foreground.

Photograph of a building on fire at the Southern Land and Lumber Company in Beaumont, Texas.

Photograph of a building on fire at the Burris Lumber Company in Beaumont, Texas.

Photograph of a burning building in Beaumont, Texas. Streams of water are visible to the left.

Photograph of a large crowd of people standing and watching a fire at the Southern Land and Lumber Company in Beaumont, Texas. There is a man on the telephone pole, and smoke is visible in the background.

Photograph of a smoking building on fire at the Burris Lumber Company in Beaumont, Texas.

Photograph of a building on fire at the Southern Land and Lumber Company in Beaumont, Texas. There are train tracks in the foreground.

Photograph of a group of firemen spraying water at a pile of lumber at the Southern Land and Lumber Company in Beaumont, Texas.

Photograph of several men in uniform squatting in front of two trucks at the Mesquite Fire Department.

Photograph of six men at a work site. One man is holding a ladder and there is a scaffold or structure behind them. The back of the photo reads, "300' Tower March 1948; Left to Right: Jerry Scruggs, Earl Fillingame, J.D. Southwell, Bill Williams, Doug Fisher, Frenchie Gaspard."

Photograph of men standing on train tracks in front of a burning building at the Southern Land and Lumber Company in Beaumont, Texas.