Gloucester Volunteer Fire and Rescue Squad announced that EMT Olivia Schulz has officially met her requirements to be released from the probationary period as a firefighter. Schulz, interested in a possible career in health care, first joined the department at the age of 16 as a part of the junior program for EMS. “When I joined, I originally wanted to do both, but when you join as a junior you can’t—you have to choose one route and I chose EMS,” she explained. Five years later, having connected with her peers in the department, she decided to join firefighting as well. “We’re all really close family up there and they all kind of got me into it—a little bit of peer pressure, but more so, I just saw what they were doing and I still had an interest in it and wanted to get involved,” she said. Spending some time watching from an EMT perspective at fires and fire training, she decided firefighting was something she wanted to begin pursuing. After six months of trainings, meetings, and othe...