Two experienced and well-trained firefighter/paramedics have joined the Gloucester Fire Department as lateral transfers from the Amesbury Fire Department.
Nicholas Meyers and Tyler Rogers, both Gloucester natives and Gloucester High School graduates, were sworn in Tuesday by City Clerk Grace E. Poirier.
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