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WATERTOWN — The city and the firefighters’ union can both take away something positive from an arbitrator’s ruling involving out-of-title captains’ pay for the now-defunct rescue truck.

WATERTOWN — The city and its firefighters’ union could be going to arbitration to resolve its ongoing contract dispute — once again.

WATERTOWN — The city and its firefighters’ union will meet with a mediator for a second time after they discussed their negotiations on Monday. A date of April 28 has been set to meet with mediator Bill Conley. He’s the same mediator who was used the last time the two parties went through mediation. Mr. Conley thought “there was enough” to get together for a second mediation session, said Daniel Daugherty, president of the Watertown Professional Firefighters Association...

WATERTOWN — The city and firefighters’ union have agreed to meet with a mediator March 19.

WATERTOWN — State police are conducting an investigation into what caused a city firefighter recruit to suffer a serious medical emergency while training at the state fire training center in Montour Falls, Schuyler County, on Wednesday. The unidentified firefighters is in serious condition in the intensive care unit at a Pennsylvania hospital, city fire department officials. The recruit was enrolled in a 11-week training program at the State Academy of Fire Science Training in Montour Fall...

WATERTOWN — The City Council on Monday night decided to pass on a federal grant that would have paid for the salaries of four new firefighters and saved the city

WATERTOWN — In the latest volley in their years-long legal battle, the firefighters’ union filed a grievance against the city involving the city’s decision to take the heavy rescue truck

WATERTOWN — Mayor Jeffrey M. Smith doesn’t see any reason for the city’s fire department to respond to an EMS call when a person falls or suffers from a diabetic

WATERTOWN — The city Fire Department’s rescue truck has been dispatched to more than 2,600 EMS calls so far this year. But the City Council on Monday might decide to take the rescue truck off the road permanently and put a stop to responses to all medical calls by firefighters. Mayor Jeffrey M. Smith is introducing a resolution at Monday night’s council meeting to end the rescue truck calls. For years, he has said that there’s no need for the rescue truck to go out on EMS ca...

WATERTOWN — The City Council is considering permanently taking the Fire Department’s rescue truck off the road and ending all emergency medical calls. Mayor Jeffrey M. Smith said he will introduce a resolution at next Monday night’s council meeting to take the rescue truck off the road and eliminate EMS calls. The need for the rescue truck — and the thousands of calls it goes on every year — has been the source of debate for years. But this is the first time council wou...