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| These photos were sent by Homer Waits. The fire was at
#11 Cracking Coil, right next to the Cat Cracker. This fire occurred in
1946 or 1947, Homer was not sure. This photo is taken from in front of
Bungalow 123 on "Bird Cage Row." |
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| Another view of the same fire. |
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| The water was sprayed on the steel structure to protect it,
not to try and put out the fire. The crude feed to the unit had been cut
off and the remaining product was allowed to burn off. After the fire,
repairs were made to a split furnace tube, probably the cause of the fire, and
the unit was put back on line. |
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| Looks to me like everyone is interested in the fire. The
men in white pants and shirts are from # 3 Lab which was across the street from
the fire. The white pants and shirts were more or less the Lab workers
uniform of the time. Note the white pants and shirts are not wearing hard
hats. Men out in the refinery wore hard hats. The guys in the khaki pants
are wearing hard hats. A white shirt and khaki pants was the uniform of
the day for refinery workers. My Dad wore khaki pants and a white shirt
and had a hard hat in his pick up truck, which he wore when he got out of the
truck. I am sure that according to Lago's Safety Rules all the men should
have been wearing hard hats. It is also questionable as to weather
or not they should have been that close to the fire. |
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