Fond du Lac Fire Rescue is welcoming its largest class of recruits. The team of seven will help to man a fourth ambulance in the city.
Monday was day one for the seven Fond du Lac Fire Rescue recruits. While they’re spending their first day working on paperwork and getting to know their new fire service family, it’s also the beginning of a new era within the department.
Clare Wolf is one of those recruits. She says, “I couldn’t sleep last night, I was super excited. Trying not to cry getting dressed was a whole experience, took me about 20 minutes to make sure I was dressed appropriately but it’s going to be great.”
One of these recruits is filling a position left vacant after a retirement. The other six are new additions to the department, positions created after voters in Fond du Lac, by a more than two to one margin, approved a referendum, last spring, to add more firefighter/paramedics as well as police officers to the city.