By Jonathan Mummolo
Washington Post
DALE CITY, Va. — A Dale City emergency medical technician who died Sunday while training to become a firefighter was wearing full firefighter gear and breathing from an air tank when she collapsed during an exercise, but there is still no official word on what caused her death, fire officials and family said yesterday.
An autopsy was performed yesterday on Cecilia Turnbough, 42, an EMT with the Dale City Volunteer Fire Department, but the medical examiner has not released a cause of death, said Randy Earl, spokesman for the Prince William County Department of Fire and Rescue. There was no apparent trauma to Turnbough’s body, Earl said.
It does not appear that her equipment was malfunctioning during the entry-level exercise about 2:45 p.m., said Steve Chappell, assistant chief of the Dale City department. He declined to comment on what might have caused Turnbough’s death, citing an ongoing investigation.
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