During the fire of September 1944, 394 families from the Felszeg district were left homeless in Gheorgheni. The town council, having organized the Burned Families Committee, compiled a register of the affected families and the destroyed farmsteads. In the burned-out part of the town (approximately 50 hectares), street regulation and plot reorganization were carried out, eliminating shared courtyards. Those who were left without building plots were granted new plots free of charge on Kápolna Street and Tatár Street, initially for 30 families.

At the same time, every affected family was allocated 10 cubic meters of round timber from the town’s Békényfő forest. From its Magasbükk forest, the local communal land association donated 15 cubic meters of round timber for each burned building to the families, and the stamping house at Békényfő was donated to the affected family of Ferenc György’s widow. The Joseni Communal Land Association donated two carved-log residential houses to the large, impoverished families of the widows of Mihály Benedek and Simon Portik.

All families received several kilograms of nails and 300 bricks for chimney construction. It should also be noted that the staff of the steam sawmill operated by Zsigmond Gottlieb on Szurokfőző Street undertook to cut building timber free of charge for more than 200 families.