The decedent was a volunteer fireman and chief of the local fire company. Early in the morning of August 24, 1953, the decedent went to the cellar of his home to light a gas hot-water heater. An explosion occurred immediately upon his lighting a match. The flames quickly spread up the cellar stairway and into the hall and the living room on the ground floor of the house. The decedent ran through the flames, up the stairs to the ground floor and then through the hall which...
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