Ignite Girls Fire Camp in Orange County introduces young women to firefighting careers through hands-on training and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BRIGHTON, N.Y. (WROC) — The Brighton Fire Department held its second annual Female Firefighter Field Day on Sunday. Through the ...

While Mikaela Balkind was working on her degree at the University of Washington in 2018, she was looking for a way to bridge her two interests in natural resource management and climate science. So ...

A firefighting training program designed primarily for women hopes to diversify the industry and to attract more people to firefighting overall. Climate change is putting a growing number of people at ...

A woman who was passed over for a job as a Ventura city firefighter is suing the city for gender discrimination, claiming that harassment, hazing and double standards prevented her from becoming the ...

MINDEN, WV (WVNS) – The W.I.L.D. Institute held their First Women’s Firefighter Weekend. This weekend united female firefighters from the area, as they took specialized training in ladder throwing, ...

Signing up for the San Jose Fire Department Women's Boot Camp was one of the hottest tickets in town, filling up shortly ...

BRIGHTON, N.Y. (WROC) — The Brighton Fire Department is holding its third annual Female Firefighter Field Day, and News 8’s Oran Spitzer got to preview some of the skills participants will learn. The ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Dozens of young women are spending their weekend in Tahlequah learning what it takes to become a firefighter through Camp Fierce, a program designed to inspire the next generation ...

Roughly 2 percent of the 280,000 firefighters across the country are women. In rural fire departments, the ratio is smaller. So, when a female firefighter reaches a ranking position, it is big news.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The first Black female firefighter in Kansas City, Carolyn Mitchell, has died, the Kansas City Fire Department announced on social media Tuesday. She was 73 years old.