Ann Arbor police and fire host Blaze and Blue camp to introduce teenage girls to first-responder careers

Moderator opened the segment by saying the time has come to bend gender norms and introduced Katie, a special assignment/community engagement officer with the Ann Arbor Police Department, and Tracy McCoy, a firefighter with the Ann Arbor Fire Department, to discuss the Blaze and Blue camp.

The camp, now in its fourth year, pairs two days of firefighter-led activities with two days of police-led programming to give teenage girls a practical introduction to first-responder careers, the guests said. "We kinda collab to give them a full first responder experience," Tracy McCoy said, describing how the program began when a female firefighter at another department shared the idea and local departments adapted it.

Organizers said the police portion focuses on traffic-safety education and basic policing demonstrations. Katie described sessions on distracted and drunk driving, where participants try "drunk goggles" and are walked through…