A Michigan firefighter died of a heart attack he suffered at his home over the weekend after feeling sick during a call, the U.S. Fire Administration announced Tuesday.
East Tawas volunteer firefighter Norman Edward Klenow, 78, was providing traffic control at a crash scene just after 3 p.m. Saturday, the agency stated. That's when he began to feel ill and was helped into an apparatus.
Klenow returned to the fire station and then went home. At just after 7:45 p.m., he was found in his house after going into cardiac arrest and taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the USFA.
Klenow had been in the fire service for more than 50 years. A funeral mass is scheduled for 11 a.m. Friday at Holy Family Catholic Church in East Tawas, and his body will be escorted by East Tawas and Tawas fire apparatus to St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, where a burial with full military honors and the last call tolling of the bell will occur.
