Several fire departments pulled recruits from the state’s fire academy after a city firefighter suffered a medical emergency while participating in a training drill Wednesday at the facility in Montour Falls, near Watkins Glen.
Battalion Chief Sean McGarrity of the Ridge Road Fire Department, in Greece, Monroe County, confirmed that four department recruits were pulled from the training at the New York State Academy of Fire Science in Schuyler County. They will not return when training resumes Tuesday.
“In light of what happened, we brought them home,” the battalion chief said Saturday. The city of Rochester Fire Department brought home its seven recruits following what happened to the Watertown trainee.
Lt. Ryan Fleming, the Rochester Fire Department’s public information officer, said his department “is still evaluating” whether the seven recruits will return to training at the state academy when it resumes Tuesday.