Fire department spokesman Lt. Jonathan Baxter confirmed that it was a 'line of duty death.'
A firefighter with the San Francisco Fire Department has died during a training exercise, officials said.
Cortez, of Station No. 3 in the Tenderloin, was injured around 10 a.m. Wednesday morning and taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where he died less than an hour later.
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