Fireman Herman Kneupper lost his life while responding to an emergency call out of Fire Station #13. When the alarm was sounded, Knuepper, who was the assistant chauffer, took his position on the running board next to the driver. As apparatus entered South Hackberry from Warwick Boulevard an automobile hit the truck and both vehicles overturned. The crew of six was thrown from the truck and Kneupper was pinned between the truck and the curb. Immediately after the collision, filling station operators at the corner summoned help and the truck was lifted off of fireman Kneupper. Kneupper’s crewmembers were rushed to the hospital. Kneupper’s was the sole fatality of the accident. Kneupper had telephoned his wife to tell her he would be home “in a little while” just a few minutes before he climbed on the running board of #13’s, with sirens screaming, taking him to his last alarm. He was survived by his wife, Agnes, daughter, Evelyn and son, Herman Jr. They resided at 106 Haggin Street.