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Photograph of fire fighters working to put out a house fire.

Photograph of men removing burning material from a home at 1011 West Hopkins Street.

Photograph of men removing burning material from a home at 1011 West Hopkins Street.

Photograph of a truck on fire.

Photograph of a truck on fire.

Photograph of a truck on fire.

Photograph of a fire damaged butane truck.

Photograph of a truck on fire in the distance.

Photograph of a truck on fire in the distance.

Photograph of men standing around a fire damaged butane truck.

Photograph of a fire damaged butane truck.

Photograph of a man looking at a fire damaged butane truck.

From San Marcos Record: A broken bottle of gasoline last Saturday caused three people to receive burns and a family left without their belongings at the Chapultepec Apartments. In the Hays County Memorial Hospital are Julia Cerda and Manuel Hurtado. Victor Cerda was injured also, but not taken to the hospital. Damage estimates to the apartment was $1000. From the March 24, 1960, issue.

From San Marcos Record: Painfully burned, Manuel Hurtado watches as fireman rest after extinguishing the blaze in a Chapultepec apartment last Saturday. Hurtado was burned along with young Julia Cerda and Victor Cerda, her father. Julia and Hurtado are in Hays County Memorial Hospital. From the March 24, 1960, issue.

From San Marcos Record: A broken bottle of gasoline last Saturday caused three people to receive burns and a family left without their belongings at the Chapultepec Apartments. In the Hays County Memorial Hospital are Julia Cerda and Manuel Hurtado. Victor Cerda was injured also, but not taken to the hospital. Damage estimates to the apartment was $1000. From the March 24, 1960, issue.

From San Marcos Record: Firemen extinguish a fire in one of the Chapultepec apartments last Saturday that did an estimated $1000 in damages to the apartment and burned the belongings of Victor Cerda family. Three were burned painfully but not critically. From the March 24, 1960, issue.

From San Marcos Record: A broken bottle of gasoline last Saturday caused the Cerda family to lose their belongings at the Chapultepec Apartments. In the Hays County Memorial Hospital are Julia Cerda and Manuel Hurtado. From The March 24, 1960 issue.

From San Marcos Record: A broken bottle of gasoline last Saturday caused the Cerda family to lose their belongings at the Chapultepec Apartments. In the Hays County Memorial Hospital are Julia Cerda and Manuel Hurtado. From The March 24, 1960 issue.

From San Marcos Record: The flames from a butane truck in Prairie Lea could have caused an explosion that might have ruined part of the community, according to firemen at the scene. Luckily the fuel fed flames burned themselves out after keeping the town on edge for two hours. From the March 24, 1960, issue.

From San Marcos Record: The old landmark at the County line, Be Back Inn, burned to the ground. Twenty men and two fire trucks came from San Marcos and Seguin fire departments but reached the fire too late to save any of the equipment. From the March 31, 1960, issue.