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Sally Walls became Smyrna’s first female police officer when she joined the force in the 1980s and eventually became the first woman in the state to rise to the rank of assistant chief of ...
Zedeck has been fighting fires for nine years, using a Canadair CL-415 “Super Scooper” to collect and release to 1,621 gallons on fires across the U.S.
If you don’t see a female firefighter, the idea never pops in your head you could do it,” said Jennifer Harkin of Central ...
Tressa LaBella was promoted to fire lieutenant on July 2, becoming the first female officer in the 150-year history of the ...
Although only about 9% of firefighters in the United States are women, Heath says she has never let that intimidate her.
Hours before responding to a three-alarm fire in Shockoe Bottom on Wednesday, the Richmond Fire Department celebrated the ...
When Shepard was hired, she became Daytona Beach's first Black female firefighter. The department had Black men in its ranks for decades, and women had become Daytona Beach firefighters for years ...
Capt. Gina Burke recounts the moment a team of all-female firefighters worked a shift together for the first time, making history for the St. John's Regional Fire Department.
Arizona’s presumptive coverage for women firefighters While FECA now recognizes ovarian, breast, uterine and cervical cancers as presumed to derive from toxic exposure, Arizona’s Revised Statutes § 23 ...
Allentown's Central Fire Station is in a deteriorating condition and the new complex would become the Life Safety & Wellness Center.
According to the BBC, Ms Logan, was the second female firefighter to die on duty in peacetime, following Fleur Lombard, 21, who died in Bristol in 1996. Tributes poured in after the tragedy, with Ms ...