If there’s anything that senior Wyatt Paul has taken away from his last school year at Waupun High School, it’s that just five minutes with your family needs to be enjoyed when you have it.
While maintaining a 4.2 grade point average last trimester and being a three-sport athlete (football, basketball, baseball), Paul has also packed on even more responsibilities.
When Paul turned 18 on Sept. 7, he applied to become a volunteer firefighter with the Fox Lake Fire Department by Christmas time. Then at the start of the third trimester, Paul became the first Waupun student to intern with the Waupun Fire Department.
Being a firefighter, coupled with going to school and being an athlete, Paul has had a very busy senior year.
“You can definitely have fun with this internship,” Paul said. “It’s definitely a huge learning curve for me because no one else in my immediate family has ever served on a fire department. I really didn’t know what to expect when I was going into it.