Claim of Post v. Hughsonville Fire District

Appeal by a fire district and its carrier from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board which awarded death benefits to the surviving spouse and minor child of deceased pursuant to the provisions of the Volunteer Firemen’s Benefit Law. At 3:44 p.m. on March 12, 1959, inclement because of snow, deceased, a temporarily unemployed steam fitter aged 53 years, was assisting his infant son, a newsboy, when he heard an alarm sounded in the headquarters of a volunteer fire company of which he was a member. He hastened to the firehouse, a distance of about 200 feet, and ascended the chauffeur’s…