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WATERTOWN — City Manager Kenneth A. Mix is encouraging the City Council to apply for a federal grant to hire city firefighters, calling it “a sound financial decision.”

WATERTOWN — The new City Council on Monday night gave informal approval to apply for a federal grant to hire city firefighters.

WATERTOWN — Watertown Fire Chief Matthew Timerman is expressing indignation that a report leaves the state off the hook in the death of city firefighter Peyton L.S. Morse.

WATERTOWN — State Sen. Patricia A. Ritchie is echoing disappointment and anger that a state agency concluded that the state fire academy had no fault in the death of city

WATERTOWN — Federal funding that helped pay the salaries of four city firefighters for the past three years quietly ran out last week.

WATERTOWN — The accident victim trapped in a mangled pickup truck in a fiery crash on Arsenal Street on Thursday night had to wait 16 minutes before Jaws of Life

WATERTOWN — Fire Chief Matthew Timerman is not satisfied that state fire administrators have not initiated an internal investigation into how city firefighter Peyton L.S. Morse died after he suffered a medical emergency while training at the state fire academy in early March. Stressing it’s been five months since the young firefighter died, Chief Timerman said Wednesday he’s requesting that the state Office of Fire Prevention and Control immediately begin an investigation into wh...

WATERTOWN — A Pennsylvania coroner’s office has determined that the manner of death of city firefighter Peyton L.S. Morse was natural causes after he suffered a medical emergency while he was involved in a training exercise at the state fire academy in early March. According to a news release Monday, the Bradford County Coroner’s Office determined the cause of death was an anoxic brain injury, cardiac arrest and consequence of physical exertion while using a Self Contained Breath...

WATERTOWN — The names of seven Watertown city firefighters who died in the line of duty had been etched into a monument of remembrance outside the South Massey Street fire

WATERTOWN — The names of seven Watertown city firefighters who died in the line of duty had been etched into a monument of remembrance outside the South Massey Street fire