RIVERVIEW FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT, Petitioner, v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD and WALTER SMITH, Respondents. 1 Background Walter Smith (applicant), born September 10, 1947, was a firefighter for Riverview Fire Protection District (employer) from September 1980 on. For example, for certain peace officers compensable injury is defined to include a hernia, heart trouble or pneumonia developed during employment. The WCJ and the Board found that the presumption of industrial causation in section 3212. 1 applied in this case. That statute does not provide the level of presumption enumerated in the other statutes listed in the preceding paragraph.

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