Firefighter trainee dies after being stricken in upstate NY March 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail WATERTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — A 21-year-old man who suffered a medical emergency during firefighter training in upstate New York died nine days after being stricken. Peyton Morse died Friday afternoon at Guthrie Hospital in Sayre, Penn., according to fire officials. He had been training to become a firefighter in Watertown. Morse had been participating in an 11-week training course at the State Academy of Fire Science Training on March 3 near Watkins Glen. He had been working with a breathing apparatus when he became unresponsive and was taken to the hospital in nearby Pennsylvania, according to WWNY-TV.