Petitioner had been employed by the City of Yonkers as a fireman for approximately 20 years. In response to a general alarm fire on the evening of January 14, 1973, he was directed to the roof of an involved eight-story building. After several trips to the roof, and while he was alone at the top of a ladder tending a pipe feeding water on the blaze, he became faint, experienced difficulty in breathing, felt a burning and sweating sensation in his chest, and almost lost consciousness...
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