EDWARDS WORKER DIED OF HEART DISEASE.Byline: - Daily News EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. - An Edwards Air Force Base employee who died after his pickup truck crashed into a parked water tank truck was killed by heart disease rather than the crash, officials said Thursday. An autopsy showed David Rice, 54, of Lancaster died of arteriosclerotic heart disease arteriosclerotic heart disease (ärtir´ēōsklerot´ik), n See disease, heart, arteriosclerotic. arteriosclerotic heart disease See Atherosclerosis, Atherosclerotic heart disease. , according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Coroner's Office. A coroner's investigator found no visible signs of injury to him after the Nov. 12 crash. Rice's Dodge truck ran into a water truck parked for a construction project on Rosamond Boulevard on the base, officials said. Rice was taken to Antelope Valley Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. |
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