SPARTANBURG, S.C. — A firefighter died after suffering a heart attack in the bunkroom of a firehouse Saturday morning.

The U.S. Fire Administration reported that firefighter-medic Kellen Andrew Fleming, 29, with the Westview-Fairforest Fire Department, was treated immediately by a fellow paramedic and other responders at the station.

He was transported to the hospital where he went into cardiac arrest.

Kellen Fleming

Despite efforts to revive him, firefighter Fleming succumbed to his injury.

He had responded to several emergency incidents and worked fire prevention activities in the hours leading up to his fatal injury, according to the report.