Bley v. Com., Dept. of Labor & Industry

*367OPINION

LARSEN, Justice.

On April 22, 1971, appellant’s husband, a voluntary fireman in the Collingdale Fire Company for over twelve years, responded with other members of said fire company to a fire. While fighting this fire, appellant’s husband collapsed and he subsequently was pronounced dead on arrival at a local hospital. The cause of death was a coronary .occlusion brought on by exposure to fire and by the excitement and extreme exertion of fighting a fire.

Appellant filed a claim for benefits for herself as surviving widow and her four children under The Pennsylvania Occupational Disease…