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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 what led to Mr. Morse’s death. He sent a letter on Tuesday to acting state fire administrator Jam...

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

WATERTOWN — Peyton L.S. Morse was going to celebrate four years of personal and academic growth when he received his diploma from Siena College later this month. Instead, family members, close friends and members of the Watertown and Shaker Road-Loudonville fire departments will come together Saturday on the campus, near Albany, for a special commencement ceremony for the fallen city firefighter. The young firefighter will receive his diploma posthumously after he suffered a medical emergency while training at the New York State Academy of Fire Science in Montour Falls, near Watkins Glen...

WATERTOWN — 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 “officially” begin their investigations into what happened, city Fire Chief Matthew Timerman said Thursday. It was six weeks...