Summer internships are relatively common these days. More than 60% of college students who graduated last year completed an internship, according to a National Association of Colleges and Employers survey cited by the Washington Post.
Still, one might be surprised to find a college intern joining first responders on emergency calls. But that’s one of many things that 23-year-old Vinny Ciricola has been doing as part of his internship with Leland Township Fire & Rescue.
Ciricola said this internship is one of the last courses that he needs to complete before he earns a bachelor’s degree in public safety administration from Eastern Michigan University (EMU). He’ll move back downstate at the end of the summer and hopes to graduate in December. From there, he plans to enroll at a fire academy and get Emergency Medical Technical (EMT) training.
