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Cause of Death: Head injury
End of Watch: January 20, 1908
Date of Incident: January 3, 1908
Age: 27
Rank: Fireman
Status: Career
Badge Number: N/A
Tour of Duty: 1 year
Assignment: Hose Wagon/Engine #6
Alarm Address: Daniels & South Flores
Nature of Death: Fell from fire truck while en-route to emergency call.

Fireman Crivelli was one of four firefighters injured while responding to a small stove fire at Daniels and South Flores.  The injured firemen were responding out of Engine House #6 at South Alamo and Lavaca when their horse drawn hose wagon overturned at South Presa St. and South Alamo Streets.  Witnesses at the scene stated that the wagon’s wheels hit and slid along the streetcar tracks causing the wagon to overturn spilling the four firefighters onto the street. Fireman Crivelli’s head hit one of the tracks and rendered him unconscious. He was taken to a nearby drug store where a physician was summoned and his wounds were dressed. He was transported to Santa Rosa Hospital and succumbed to his fatal injury on January 20^th 1908 at the city hospital.

Fireman John Crivelli was survived by his father, three brothers and a sister. He resided with his father on Milam Street.