Teaching firefighting skills to young women

[ny biker]

Awesome thing that my local fire department is doing. And very nice that BBC has picked up on it.

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-40650788/ladders-and-chainsaws-the-women-teaching-young-girls-firefighting-skills

[Pax]

Women make excellent firefighters, if I do say so myself. :D

We did some classes for kids when I was on the job, but mostly to the Explorer Post due to liability. Hardest part with kids is their inability to gauge risk, they walk right into a semi controlled environment thinking it's like Disney, where all risk is mitigated.

[shootingstar]

I used to meet the rare women firefighter in 1 of my jobs a long time ago..1 of them earlier was a star high school volleyball and basketball player at same school where I went. I met her when I had relocated 2 decades later in another city.