Sleepy Hollow Fire Engine Collision with Train Fatality 1964

Richard Krejci, a firefighter with the California Department of Forestry (now CAL FIRE) was killed when the engine he was riding en route to a house fire with vegetation threat in the Sleepy Hollow area near Chino, struck a passing freight train. The engine, an open-backed, two-axle truck, was responding with red lights and siren on Etiwanda Avenue when it skidded and struck the train. The rear of the engine broadsided a freight car, throwing Krejci from the back of the vehicle, killing him. The other occupants of the engine were injured. 

Engine Incident or Accident, Fatality, Driving, Initial Attack