In honor of Women’s History Month we sat down with women from local fire departments to get their hot take on being a female in this field. When wildland firefighter Amber Janas sees another female on ...

With women making up only 4% of firefighters nationwide, a new workshop in Broken Arrow is aiming to change that. The "Fierce Future" Female Firefighters Readiness Workshop, hosted by Tulsa Metro ...

Hoover Middle School eighth grader Lailah Brooks has aspirations of becoming the first Black fire chief for the Merced City ...

In 2006, Kareena Lynde was working in Shasta Lake, Calif. on a hotshot crew—a group of highly trained wildland firefighters—when she started to notice a sharp pain in her abdomen. At first she ...

When Jess Thomsen was asked to share her story about becoming Colwood’s first female full-time career firefighter, she hesitated. While Thomsen is proud of the accolade bestowed upon her in March, she ...

which is certainly the case for women with roles in male-dominated fields. Only 9% of firefighters nationwide are women, according to the National Fire Protection Agency. With only 89,000 of the 1 ...