All posts tagged "firefighter"
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431NEWSFemale Firefighter Strives For Excellence
By Rose Lundy The Daily News, Longview, Wash. WWR Article Summary (tl;dr) Firefighter Chelsey Miller says she sometimes encounters people who don’t...
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450NEWSCarolyn Head One Of The Few Female Wildland Firefighters
By Erika Wells The Augusta Chronicle, Ga. WWR Article Summary (tl;dr) Carolyn Head was a vet technician for six years but always...
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653NEWSGender Gap: Local Fire Departments Struggle To Find Women Recruits
By Bayne Hughes The Decatur Daily, Ala. WWR Article Summary (tl;dr) The U.S Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics says only...
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Female Firefighter Still Fight For Equality: ‘We’re Assumed Incompetent’
By Robert McCoppin, Angie Leventis Lourgos and Alicia Fabbre Chicago Tribune WWR Article Summary (tl;dr) According to the U.S. Department of Labor,...
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539NEWSFour New Female Firefighters In This Year’s FDNY Class
By Sheila Anne Feeney amNewYork, New York. Not even half of 1% of firefighters in New York City are female, but that...
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432NEWSFirst Female Captain in Oxnard Didn’t Grow Up Wanting To Be Firefighter
By Cindy Von Quednow Ventura County Star, Calif. Melissa Stillwagon didn’t know she wanted to be a firefighter until her mid-20s. Her...