Meet Pasco County Firefighter/Paramedic Cody Schmitt
Land O' Lakes Patch introduces the community to one of its hard-working first responders.
Firefighter/Paramedic Cody Schmitt is in his second year of service with the Pasco County Fire Department. He, like many other young firefighters, is a floater, filling voids in different Pasco stations as they are needed. Schmitt is a native of Lutz and a Gaither High School graduate. He started his firefighter training at Hillsborough Community College and continued in the fire academy there. Schmitt worked as an emergency technician for a private ambulance company called Transcare for three years prior to joining the Pasco department. Schmitt always liked fireworks and fires for that matter as a child. The notion of being a firefighter had been in his mind for years. It got stronger in high school. "I thought 'What better profession?, I…
