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![Image shows Krystal Kemp, an 8 year old Black child, in front of shelves of books at the Pleasantville neighborhood library. She is wearing glasses and a floral patterned shirt. Above her head, she holds a white paper with a colored border. The paper reads “The fire was terrible as terrible as could be. The fire was horrible as horrible as could be. It made people sad. It made peolpe [sic] cry and It made people sigh.” Krystal wrote her poem as part of a “Rhyme Time” event organized by the Pleasantville library, at which young residents of the neighborhood could process their feelings about the fires of the summer through poetry and writing. Black and white photo courtesy of Ben DeSoto for the Houston Chronicle (“No Smothering Their Feelings”) dated August 13, 1995.](https://houstonfloodmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Warehouse-Fire-3-Krystel-Kemps-poem.png "Krystal Kemp (age 8) shares a poem she wrote at the Pleasantville library about the three warehouse fires in her neighborhood.")
Krystal Kemp (age 8) shares a poem she wrote at the Pleasantville library about the three warehouse fires in her neighborhood.
Krystal Kemp (age 8) shares a poem she wrote at the Pleasantville library about the three warehouse fires in her neighborhood.
About a month after the initial eruption, the remains of the first warehouse to burn caught fire again due to lingering hot spots in the building. This final fire was put out quickly, but it added urgency to the community’s calls for environmental protections and reform.