{"id":333722,"date":"2026-08-31T11:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333722\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:08:16","slug":"cny-firefighter-remembered-after-fatal-utv-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333722\/","title":{"rendered":"CNY firefighter remembered after fatal UTV crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOWN OF TURBIN, N.Y. \u2014 A man from Central New York is dead and another is recovering after a UTV crash in Lewis County, State Police say. <\/p>\n<p>Troopers were called to MacKay Road in the Town of Turin around 8:45 p.m. on Saturday, August 29, Troopers say. The cause of the crash is still under investigation. <\/p>\n<p>When they arrived they found the vehicle had gone off the road and hit a tree. First responders pronounced the driver, Ryan Voorhies, dead at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>A passenger in the UTV at the time of the crash sustained serious injuries and was transported by helicopter to Upstate Medical University, Troopers say. <\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/19VJ5dHerT\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">post on Facebook<\/a>, the Sylvan Beach Fire Department confirmed Voorhies was the 3rd Assistant Chief for the station. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is with heavy hearts and extreme difficulty that we pass along the tragic and untimely death of 3rd Assistant Fire Chief Ryan Voorhies. Ryan was fatally injured in a UTV accident last night in Lewis County. Please keep Ryan&#8217;s wife Katie, son Gabe, son Logan and his entire family in your thoughts,&#8221; the department wrote. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOWN OF TURBIN, N.Y. \u2014 A man from Central New York is dead and another is recovering after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-333722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}