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• Bridgeport Fire Department offers second chances to firefighters with criminal records

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  Program seeks to represent the full diversity of the community while giving qualified applicants a good job opportunity

• Female firefighters defy old ideas of who can be an American hero

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  Women still make up less than 1 percent of New York’s 11,000 firefighters. The city trails Minneapolis, San Francisco, Seattle and Miami

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• Officials: County program has increased Polk Fire Rescue diversity

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  The Proactive Diversity Recruitment and Training Program was designed to help bring economically disadvantaged and minorities into the fire services

• Fire doesn’t discriminate, but gender plays a role in firefighter safety

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  Research shows that female firefighters face different risks than their male counterparts

• Sexual assault against fire/EMS providers: Talk about it

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  Define what behaviors are off limits and what to do if an assault against emergency responders does occur

• Ohio fire department sees most diverse academy class in decades

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  Out of 47 recruits, 30 are white, 12 are black, four are Hispanic, and one is American Indian

• Conn. fire dept. expands eligibility, offers scholarship for recruits

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  The Bridgeport Fire Department is hoping to attract a diverse crew to become the newest of the city’s bravest

• One of FDNY's first female firefighters dies

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  Catherine Lohan, one of the women who smashed the FDNY’s gender barrier nearly 40 years ago to become a New York City firefighter, died at 68

• Firefighters around the world show young girl she can be one too

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  After Hannah Summers said on Twitter that her daughter didn’t think girls could be firefighters, first responders replied with encouraging messages

• Wash. fire dept. staffs first all-female paramedic unit in its history

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  Spokane County Fire District 8 firefighter-paramedics Meg Williams and Jennifer Raudebaugh said the milestone felt like just another day on the job

• Scathing review prompts Boston mayor to seek female fire cadet program

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  The review was ordered after several women in the department complained of a discriminatory culture toward female firefighters

• Conn. fire dept. hires first black female firefighter

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  Kafi Davis, who left her first career at the Department of Children and Families to train to become a firefighter, will go to EMT school next

• Chicago officials demand more fire dept. entrance exams to increase diversity

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  With the last firefighters entrance exam taking place in 2014, and the next one scheduled for 2021, Chicago aldermen are demanding a higher frequency

• How to build a safer community through diversity

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  Reflecting the community helps the fire service provide better service

• NJ fire dept. promotes its first female lieutenant

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  Angelina Tirado said she hopes “to continue moving up” in the Clifton Fire Department

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