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Suspicious fire kills Pa. firefighter

By Sandra K. Reabuck
The Tribune-Democrat

WESTOVER, Pa. — A veteran volunteer firefighter died early Saturday at Miners Medical Center in Hastings after he collapsed while returning a fire hose to a truck in this southern Clearfield County borough.

Roy Everett Westover Jr., 41, who lived in Westover, was pronounced dead at 2:06 a.m. in the hospital emergency room, Cambria County Coroner Dennis Kwiatkowski said.

The cause of death was ruled as a stress-induced heart attack, the No. 1 killer among firefighters, Kwiatkowski said.

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