Two men who died in New York manure tanker tragedy were volunteer firefighters, farmers and friends [Video]

Clinton, N.Y. ― Two men who died in a manure tanker accident in Central New York were firefighters, farmers and good friends.

Nathan Doody, 33, of DeRuyter, and Tyler Memory, 29, of Tully, were found unconscious Thursday morning inside a manure tanker at Champion Farm in Clinton, police said. They were transported to the Wynn Hospital in Utica, where they were pronounced dead, police said.

The men worked for Dairy Support Services, a contracting company that plants, fertilizes and harvests for farms, said Scott Potter, the owner. Memory just started working there this spring and Doody started in 2015, Potter said.

Doody and Memory were volunteer firefighters. Doody was a member of the Cuyler department in Cortland County and Memory of the Tully department in Onondaga County.

For both men, volunteering with the fire department was a family affair.

“He married into the department,” Cuyler Fire Chief Adam Daley said …