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Female firefighters defy old ideas of who can be an American hero

  • Written by Lorraine Dowler, Associate Professor of Geography and Women's Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Strong enough to do the job.Peretz Partensky/flickr, CC BY-SA

Five women graduated from New York City’s Fire Academy on April 18, bringing the number of women serving in the Fire Department of New York to 72 – the highest in its history.

The FDNY’s 2018 graduating class also includes the first son to follow his mother into the...

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