The firefighter, identified as engineer Danny Cook, suffered what was described as a medical emergency, Cal Fire said.
A Cal Fire/Riverside County firefighter died while extinguishing a fire at a home in Nuevo on Wednesday morning, Dec. 31, a Cal Fire spokesman said.
Engineer Danny Cook, 45, died from a medical emergency and not an injury, Cal Fire said. Cook worked at Station 90 in Perris.
“His commitment to duty and service will not be forgotten,” Joe Tyler, chief of the state firefighting agency, said in a written statement.
