Women tackle Firefighting’s Risks and Rewards

Women are making major contributions to fire departments across the United States, achieving new milestones in a field traditionally dominated by men.

In February, three women with the Washington Township Fire Department in Ohio became the department’s first all-female crew to answer a fire call. In September 2020, five women with the Palm Beach Gardens Fire Rescue Department achieved a similar milestone, working an all-woman shift for the first time since the department’s founding in 1963.

More than half of the firefighters at the Frametown Volunteer Fire Department in West Virginia are women, making it the country’s only known majority-female fire department. Read More…