As firehouses are seeing a nationwide shortage, some are pushing to recruit more women as they make up less than 5% of career firefighters. NBC News’ Julie Tsirkin reports.
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Very few women can do the job of a city fire department adequately. They simply are not big enough or strong enough. I worked wildland fires for a couple of years in my 20s, I could do that but forget structure fires where you have to climb ladders with heavy packs and carry people out of buildings. It is physically too demanding for the vast majority of women, but there are some exceptions, and those who are the exceptions should absolutely go for it. More women can do wildland fire fighting because it does not require as much strength.
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Start using goats to clear forest brush and start dobbing in Fire Karens.
RESPECT
Dual firefighter household with 4 kids, asks how do we do this?.… stay at home and raise your kids.
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Do you really believe this hundred and thirty pound woman can kick a door in
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Woman firefighters are fine as long as they can pass the same test as the men.
FYI they don't and your safety is at risk because of it.
Why women? Doesn't seem like a job the average woman would be good at.
Blah blah blah blah blah 🙄
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Lol as soon as they get women involved they start taking apart the viability of the job with all the social 'needs' they have and altering the requirements to suit themselves.
Sorry but who wants a 130 pound woman trying to carry a 200 pound man out of a burning building.And yes i have taken fire training many times and doing physical labour in a 120 degree smoke filled environment wearing 40 pounds of gear and a scott air pack is not something you want to be politically correct with.
there are no fire fighter shortages 😅💀 SAFD gets like 3,000 applicants a year and only 59 get in. This is for wild land firefighting.
What about vacation mandates
This does not fit into my brains. This work is not for women. Greetings from Ukraine.ðŸ¤â€Â
Yea nothing like a useless female firefighter that can't carry a victim out of a burning house and refuses to suit up several days a month.
They can breath carcinogens too now. There's your abortion
Some people prefer to learn lessons in the hardest way possible. Good luck with that anyway!
Saw how women fought fires in the Navy…surprising when didn’t lose more ships.
I respect them all. better those men wark around at the street. you don't need to be homeless when you can go to work.
You have a 250 lb man upstairs, 3 kids in a burning building….with 3 weman firefighters. The adult guy is dead. 2 men could get them all out. In half the time
Just because you "can" do something doesnt mean you would be GOOD at it.
Tbh it takes 2 weman to do the work of 1 man.