WATERTOWN â National investigators were in Watertown for three days talking to city fire department officials and family members as part of their investigations into what caused the death of city firefighter Peyton L.S. Morse, who suffered a medical emergency while he was involved in a training exercise at the state fire academy in early March.
Investigators from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, or NIOSH, spent some of Friday, Saturday and part of Monday before leaving and heading to Rochester to begin the next phase of their investigation into what happened at the New York State Academy of Fire Science, city Fire Chief Matthew Timerman said Monday afternoon.
WATERTOWN â State and national investigators were at the state fire academy Wednesday as part of their investigations into what caused the death of city firefighter Peyton Lane S. Morse, who suffered a medical emergency while he was involved in a training exercise there in early March.
Investigators from Public Employee Safety and Health Bureau, or PESH, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, or NIOSH, were at the site Wednesday to âofficiallyâ begin their investigations into what happened, city Fire Chief Matthew Timerman said Thursday.
It was six weeks ago when the young firefighter was found unresponsive while wearing a breathing apparatus during a training exercise at the academy in Montour Falls, near Watkins Glen, on March 3. Mr. Morse, 21, died nine days later.
WATERTOWN â Fire Chief Matthew Timerman went down to see how Peyton Morse and a fellow recruit were doing with training at the New York State Academy of Fire Science on March 3.
He gave words of encouragement to Mr. Morse, wished the young recruit well and told him heâd see him back in Watertown over the weekend.
He and the small contingent of city firefighters left the academy at about 12:30 p.m. after the visit that day.
It was the last time the chief saw Mr. Morse alive.
A memorial honors fallen firefighters, where Peyton Morseâs name will soon be added, outside of the Emma Flower Taylor Fire Station on South Massey Street on Friday in Watertown. Kara Dry/Watertown Daily Times
WATERTOWN â The state attorney generalâs office will not conduct an investigation into what caused the death of city firefighter Peyton Lane S. Morse, who suffered a medical emergency while he was involved in a training exercise at the state fire academy in early March.
Assemblyman Mark C. Walczyk, R-Watertown, and state Sen. Patricia A. Ritchie, R-Heuvelton, were notified that Attorney General Letitia A. James will not proceed with an inquiry into the young firefighterâs death. He was found unresponsive following mask-confidence training involving breathing apparatus at the New York State Academy of Fire Science on March 3.
Michael J. Schenk, Mr. Walczykâs chief of staff, said he was told by a representative from the attorney generalâs office that it would be a conflict of interest if her office would have to legally defend the state fire academy.
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