12/06/2002

The Associated Press

DALLAS — A 30-year-veteran firefighter died after collapsing while helping to battle a two-alarm house fire in northern Dallas, officials said.

Fire officials suspected Capt. Michael L. DePauw, 51, suffered a massive heart attack while fighting an 8 p.m. attic fire Thursday at the large two-story house. He was taken to Medical City Dallas hospital but could not be revived, fire Lt. Doug Dickerson said.

DePauw had been with the department since March 1972.

- The Dallas Morning News, Friday, December 6, 2002

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