Herculaneum
High School Fire
Christmas Day 1947
The Herculaneum High School was destroyed by fire on December 25, 1947. At the time, there
was no organized fire department in Herculaneum. Volunteers manning hose carts battled the fire
to no avail. Mutual aid assistance was provided by neighboring fire departments. Following the
loss of the school, a group of interested citizens started to organize a volunteer fire
department for Herculaneum.
First Baptist Church
of Herculaneum
February 15, 1991
Battling extreme windy conditions and a forty degrees below zero wind chill factor,
twelve county mutual aid departments fought the fire that consumed the
First Baptist Church of Herculaneum.
Herculaneum - Downtown
June 30, 1995
Ten Jefferson County Fire Departments responded to a structure fire on
Main Street that heavily damaged an unoccupied building. The building was at the
south end of a row of two story commercial buildings.
Crystal Tire Fire
July 5, 1965
Crystal City, Mo
Herculaneum firefighters and several area fire departments assisted the
Crystal City Fire Department in battling a fire at the Crystal Tire Company.
Herculaneum firefighter James Evans and Assistant Chief Steve Siracusa
of the Crystal City Fire Department received the American Legion Silver Star
of Valor for Heroism after successfully moving the gasoline
tanker truck from the fire.
Garage Fire
March 13, 2001
The original call came in as a brush fire. When crews arrived on the scene and notified Jeffco
that the fire was apparently a structure fire, a first alarm was struck. The original firefighter on the
scene fought the fire by himself until other units arrived on the scene to aid in extinguishing the blaze.
Crystal City Fire Department arrived on the scene to assist the Herculaneum Fire Fighters. The Dunklin
Fire Department manned the engine house in case of other emergencies.
Dump Truck Accident
July 22, 2001
The bed of a dump truck was ripped off when the driver
went under the overpass of Interstate-55 with the dump
of his bed raised. State employees along with a tow
company used a backhoe and tow truck to lower the
erected dump bed.
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