Deborah Person smiled through the whole thing. At the graduation ceremony April 1 at FDNY headquarters in Brooklyn, she nodded as Fire Department leaders spoke, and clapped loudly as one by one, young men and women in blue walked up for their photographs with the Commissioner.
Newly armed with State Emergency Medical Technician certificates, the 24 recent high-school graduates—many of whom had few resources at home and came from the city’s rougher neighborhoods—had just concluded the department’s Youth Workforce Development program, which trains high-school students in emergency medical care and helps them find jobs in the field.
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