Captain Peter Sirna

Last Call: Mon, Aug 24th, 1959

Date of Incident: Tue, Aug 18th, 1959

Cause of Death: Burns

Service Time: 16 years

Age: 46

Survivors

His wife Josephine and sons Anthony, Sylvester, Joseph, and Carmen.

Incident

A fire was started from a spark at a gasoline bulk filling station while two men were filling there tanker truck. Later in the incident after firefighters had arrived on the scene to douse the flames an explosion occurred. A 20,000 gal. tank exploded engulfing several firefighters in flames and killing Captain Sirna as well as Captain George Bartels, Firefighter Virgil Sams, Firefighter Neal Owen, and Firefighter Delbert Stone.