ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — The City of Canandaigua approved a study into public safety and rejected the hiring of two firefighters. Canandaigua City Council held a public meeting on Tuesday to pass the 225 budget. Although they approved funds for a deputy fire chief, they did not approve additional staffing for the fire department. The rejection comes despite calls for more staffing from the Professional Canandaigua Firefighters Local 2098. Those calls came after a house fire on Jefferson Avenue killed a 98-year-old man. The union argued that adequate staffing would have been able to prevent that man's death. Instead, city council members approved a public safety study that would examine fire, police, and ambulatory services in the city. They acknowledge the comments made by firefighters about these issues, but they need to examine the risk of emergencies. "We can't keep the public safe because citizens will still go to sleep at night with a lit cigarette in their hands and "their house will burn down, some citizens will still walk out on thin ice to fish and fall through," Councilmember Douglas Merrill said in the meeting. He adds "What is our job is to manage risk, to do our best to manage the risk that bad things happen to good people." News 8 has reached out to the Mayor's Office and will update this story as more information is revealed.