In this proceeding, petitioner, widow of a fireman who succumbed to a myocardial infarction sustained fighting a fire, seeks review and annulment of an order by the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board which granted the carrier's petition for reconsideration, rescinded the referee's order commuting an award of death benefits and substituted its own order of commutation. The matter arose as follows:
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