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2-11-62 Fireman Dies While At Blaze A Dallas fire captain collapsed and died as he fought a fire in an apartment house at 1313 Pennsylvania in South Dallas just before 11 p.m. Saturday. L. K. Williams of Fire Station 24 at 2331 Poplar was pronounced dead at Baylor Hospital at 11:14 p.m. doctors said he apparently suffered a heart attack or had died of suffocation. One hour earlier, a spectacular 3-alarm fire in Oak cliff destroyed the vacant Abundant Life Center at 1730 S. Ewing. Loss was estimated at $20,000. Williams, inside the 4-unit apartment building when the roof began to collapse, rushed outside and told other firemen that he couldn't breathe, then collapsed. Efforts to revive him were futile. Three families living in the apartment house were uninjured. Nearly 60 firemen and 11 fire-wagons answered the revival center blaze. Three teen-agers returning from a banquet turned in the alarm at 9:58 p.m. to Fire Station 23 across the street from the burning building. Dr. O. B. Graham, manager of the center, said he had locked the building when he left about 8 p.m. Fire Chief C. N. Penn said the fire apparently started in an attic near a central heating unit. Graham said he had been holding nightly revivals but he had made Saturday night a "night of rest." He said he had recently remodeled the center. |