if it makes you feel any better, Yes some of the women are not suitable for interior firefighting, but in my departments, as well as several others, there are just as many men if not more whom are also not stable enough for interior work. Its up to the CO's to determine when someones ready and has the proper training. It's our jobs to work with what we have and make it work

just wanted to say hey and stay safe. hope u have a good day.

I like your forum post. I agree that women have every right to not only be firefighters, but with the proper time in, training and possesing leadership skills, should and hopefully will run amongst the men for the positions of power in the fire departments. If someone has blatent disreguard for you because of your gender, than they shouldnt be on the job. In 2007, we shouldnt be having conversations about sexist pigs, or racism, it is a thing of the past, lets move forward to the real world, one thats rapidly progressing towards equality throughout the work force, firehouse included

So far it has been great..When we are doing trainging he is the one who is up first, and calling me and making sure I am doing it right also..We have several women in our dept. (which are family and they like to sit back and joke around, they do include me), but my husband is one there is a time for horesplay but not when we are training on something important. Don't get me wrong he does alot of joking to...We both keep up with who has been on what calls.. So its been fun

Hey thanks for add.
Stay safe

it was always a dream when i was a kid and i hung around the local station too because my friend at the times dad was the cheif and i eventually decided it was what i was going to do..what about your self

Just wanted to check it out thats all..

Do you have a myspace

thanks alot!!! its nice to see other girls in this industry! i kno wat you mean by itsa hard! i was in the middle of our cadet classes and our cheif told us it had to be put on hold until we could get some money! all of the cadets have no turnout gear so and we arnt a funded department so that makes it harder for us!!! but thanks for your support it really helps! -ashley

its going i guess, my weekend was ok, boring as all hell, but hey, watcha gonna do? prep for party isnt going bad i guess, you gonna com?