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Funeral Set for Fallen Philly Firefighter Gabriel Lee

Family, friends and fellow firefighters will say goodbye to Gabriel Lee next week. Funeral arranagements are set now for Lee, a veteran firefighter of 17 years who died on the job Saturday.

The first viewing is Monday, August 1 at Deliverance Evangelistic Church from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The church is located at 2001 W. Lehigh Avenue in Philadelphia. A second viewing takes place Tuesday morning at 9, followed by the funeral service at 11 a.m. Burial is immediately following the service at Ivy Hill Cemetery on Easton Road.

Lee died while working night shift at the North Philadelphia firehouse, officials said. He was found unresponsive in the basement of the firehouse, on Cambria Street between 13th and Broad, overnight and taken to Temple University Hospital. Doctors pronounced him dead there.

"Firefighter Lee was very well-respected, and the best way to say that is around 1 o'clock in the morning, at Temple [Hospital], we had more than 100 firefighters there, the mayor was there, on-duty, off-duty, to say goodbye," Thiel said.

Lee's cause of death is under investigation.

The Philadelphia Fire Department on Sunday tweeted a photo of Lee's boots, uniform and hat marking his red locker in the firehouse. Several police and firefighters tweeted tributes to the fallen firefighter.

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The Philadelphia Fire Department has confirmed that Gabriel Lee passed away while on the job Saturday night. Sources say Lee was found unresponsive and was transported to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney visited Temple University Hospital to pay his respects to Lee Saturday night. The Philadelphia Police Highway Patrol escorted Lee's body from the hospital to the Medical Examiner's Office.

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