PULASKI, Va. — A firefighter who died after working at a house fire suffered an intracranial hemorrhage, investigators found.

Firefighter Jeffrey H. Reed, of the Pulaski Fire Department, Virginia, complained of a headache while cleaning up the incident scene on June 4 last year.

Despite three days of intensive treatment at a local hospital, he passed away from intracranial bleeding due to a hemorrhagic colloid cyst, a NIOSH report released Monday said.

Colloid cysts are rare, according to the report, and account for less than one percent of all intracranial tumors.

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