Watertown Fire Chief Matt Timerman is reacting to the findings of 2 reports into the death of Peyton Morse. He says those reports give him confidence to now call on the state to do a new internal investigation of the New York State Fire Academy, and not be afraid of the answers he thinks they’ll find.
With an autopsy report showing Peyton Morse was a healthy 21-year-old with no heart problems or pre-existing conditions, coupled with a report showing Morse’s air pack he was using at the state fire academy March 3, 2021, was in fine working order, Timerman says the state needs to start looking at another variable: the training environment at the fire academy.
“Now we’re left with pretty hard questions. How does a healthy 21-year-old firefighter with a functioning air pack - how does he go into cardiac arrest during training,” said Timerman.