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• USFS recruiting female firefighters for 2 NM national forests

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  The U.S. Forest Service is encouraging women to apply for wildland firefighting jobs in the Santa Fe and Carson national forests

• Md. county appoints first African-American, female fire chief

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  Chief Deputy Tiffany Green will be the interim replacement for retiring Chief Benjamin Barksdale

• Study aims to deliver better fitting gear to female firefighters

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  Data collected will help manufacturers design firefighting gear specifically for females

• Boise FD hires first female captain in 143-year history

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  Senior firefighter Ashley Rosenbaum will be named captain in a ceremony Wednesday at Station 17 on Cole Road

• Sacramento FD honors forward-thinking fire chief

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  William R. Powell created the organization’s first hazmat and swift-water rescue teams, bought three fire trucks with ladders reaching 150 feet and started hiring female firefighters

• Study: Female firefighters more at risk for PTSD, suicide

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  Out of the 2,639 firefighters surveyed, only 75 responses were from females and 20% scored positive for PTSD and 30% will consider suicide throughout her life

• FDNY promotes 30, including first Asian woman to become a fire officer

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  Thirty city firefighters became lieutenants Wednesday in a promotion ceremony presided over by Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro

• 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

• Ariz. firefighter-paramedic awarded $3.8M for lack of private breast pumping room

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  According to her attorney not all stations complied with federal law regarding pumping rooms

• Historic selection for San Francisco's next fire chief

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  Jeanine Nicholson, only the second woman to hold the position, will also have the distinction of being the city’s first LGBT fire chief

• 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

• Ind. teen to become firefighter before high school graduation

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  Lake Station Fire Chief Chuck Fazekas said Taeylor Holliday, 18, is part of “a different breed,” willing to risk her life to save others

• Md. fire dept. hires first female chief in its history

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  Trisha Wolford, who was the first female assistant chief in Spokane, will be the first female chief of Anne Arundel County Fire Department

• 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

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