Northern Lakes Fire District staffs all-female crew for first time in department's history
Firefighter/Paramedic Shay Carlock, Engineer/Paramedic Amanda Tams and Cadet Cadence Wurster are staffed for Station 3.
The Daily Republic13d
Boehmer promoted as first female assistant fire chief for Mitchell Fire Department
Effective Jan. 21, former battalion lieutenant Tiffany Boehmer became the assistant fire chief and the first female in a ...
Orange County Register10d
Prisoner firefighters deserve respect – and a better chance at becoming professional fighters
completing a modified training regimen that allowed me to progress to a position not as an active firefighter but as a cleaner. My job was to ensure that the prisoner-firefighters came back to ...
L.A.’s fire chief generated controversy — and fierce loyalty — while the city burned
Critics of Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley — a gay woman leading an overwhelmingly male department — call her a “DEI ...
Jewish Journal8d
Israeli Firefighters’ Reflections on Helping Out Los Angeles
She was the only female in the delegation ... Southern California and Israel make both places ample training ground for elite firefighters. “Haifa is a beautiful city with beaches, mountains ...
KOMU8d
Persons of interest identified in killing of Fulton 17-year-old
Investigators have identified persons of interest in the killing of 17-year-old Mason Sheets, who was found dead with a ...
AOL25d
LAFD’s $300K-per-year diversity chief sparks fury for defending DEI by blaming the victim: ‘He got himself in the wrong place’
In a video defending the department’s DEI hiring practices, Deputy Chief Kristine Larson — who heads the Equity and Human Resources Bureau — addressed accusations that female firefighters ...