WATERTOWN â Fire Chief Jeff VanBrocklin and members of the Watertown Fire Department were perched on the outer Massey Street overpass Monday afternoon to pay their respects while a procession brought city firefighter Peyton Morse home.
State troopers led the hearse along the 130-mile route from Binghamton to Cummings Funeral Home on Sterling Street.
Dozens of police and fire department vehicles joined along the way on Interstate 81. First responders lined up on other overpasses along the busy highway to honor him.
The motorcade brought the young fallen firefighter home from a hospital in Binghamton after he died Friday from a medical emergency he suffered while training at the state fire academy 12 days ago.
WATERTOWN â The body of Watertown firefighter Peyton Morse will be coming home today.
State police will assist the city fire department with escorting Mr. Morseâs body from Binghamton back to Watertown. An escort detail is scheduled to leave Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton between 11:30 a.m. and noon today.
The escort will drive north on Interstate 81 to exit 45 onto Arsenal Street. From there, the escort will turn right onto South Massey Street, passing the Watertown fire station, then left onto Clinton Street and ending at 214 Sterling St., Cummings Funeral Home.
On March 3, Mr. Morse was taking part in a firefighter training program for recruits at the New York State Academy of Fire Science in Montour Falls, near Watkins Glen. He was training to become a full-time member of the Watertown Fire Department.
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Peyton Morse, seen at far left.LORI WASHBURN/Shaker Road Loudonville Fire DepartmentShow MoreShow Less
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Peyton Morse, third from left,at the Shaker Road Loudonville fire station.Shaker Road Loudonville Fire DepartmentShow MoreShow Less
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Twenty-one year-old Peyton Morse was living out his lifelong dream of becoming a firefighter when tragedy struck earlier this month at a training academy.
Morse, a Siena College senior, died Friday afternoon in a Pennsylvania hospital, nine days after suffering a medical emergency while at a firefighter training program for recruits at the state Fire Academy of Fire Science at Montour Falls, near Watkins Glens in Schuyler County. He was taken to a local hospital before being transferred to Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Penn., according to published reports. Details of his death could not be learned Saturday.
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