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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 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. ....
WATERTOWN â The city will conduct its own investigation into what caused the death of city firefighter Peyton Lane S. Morse following an incident at the stateâs fire academy in early March. The city has retained a private investigative firm, AMRIC Associates Ltd., Syracuse, to conduct the investigation into what happened when the young firefighter became unresponsive while training at the New York State Academy of Fire Science on March 3. Nine days later, Mr. Morse died at a Pennsylvania hospital. A Pennsylvania coroner has not yet determined the cause and manner of his death. âWe want to find out what happened and what caused it,â City Manager Kenneth A. Mix said Wednesday. ....
WATERTOWN â Peyton Lane S. Morseâs grandfather and great-uncle are demanding answers about how the young city firefighter died during a training exercise at the state fire academy almost two weeks ago. Ronald Morse, Peytonâs grandfather, and his uncle Stan Morse are so angry about the circumstances regarding how the fire recruit died that they drove to the New York State Academy of Fire Science in Montour Falls, near Watkins Glen, on Tuesday morning and picketed in front of the fire training school. They carried signs that read the fire academy was âdangerous,â accusing instructors of not responding in a timely manner during the medical emergency in which Peyton was found unresponsive in the March 3 incident. ....