CUYLER, NY (WHCU) — Local authorities are mourning the loss of two firefighters.

29-year-old Tyler Memory from the Tully Fire Department, and 33-year-old Nate Doody from the Cuyler Fire Department died on Thursday. WSYR-TV reports the two fell into a manure tanker at a farm in Oneida County.

Authorities say Memory and Doody were trying to retrieve a piece of equipment that dropped into the tanker.