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it just helps me become like a better

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person and anything , not just

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firefighting anything , just keep going .

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Don't give up , you just got to keep

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pushing . So at tech school there was

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probably about 20 , females altogether

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out of like 500 of us or something like

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that . So it's very rare . Mhm .

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We come in like sprinkles so you might

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catch like , oh this one , you know ,

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so I'm excited to see another female

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coming in . I have a daughter , she's

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eight , she sees me doing this and like

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she , she's like , oh , I can do this

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too . So I bring out the summer camps

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that we host at our base and she loved

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pulling the hoses , spraying all the

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good stuff and you know , I love it .

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And then you got other kids watching

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you . So it's a drink , it's impacting

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lives . Mhm Yeah , not everybody can do

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that is going through tech school ,

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It's , I've seen many of big dudes

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strong got muscles , like a bodybuilder

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types , they couldn't even make it

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through and just , I made it through .

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It just gives me like a sense of pride .

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This job pushes you and you got to be

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on point like at all times no matter

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what , like we can get a call any day ,

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you gotta get up and ready , you know

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what you're going into , we gotta be

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sharp . I've never been deployed with

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the female firefighter until now , but

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it's the same thing like back home . I

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mean they do the same job that all the

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male firefighters do having females in

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the firefighting world , kind of gives

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us an edge on emergencies that we would ,

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we would go to say responding to a

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female that doesn't want to talk to us

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about specific things . We can have

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this female firefighter or female

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paramedic go in and talk to them and

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they'll be more comfortable with that

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female . It could definitely change the

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aspect of any emergency when I got here .

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They treat me like a little sister ,

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like my big brothers , they take care

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of me and they look out for me even

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though I can hold , I can hold my own

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weight because I got here by myself ,

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but they helped me out a lot , they

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teach me a lot , everybody in the fire

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department teach you something

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different and so everybody has made a

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big impact from my base from the south ,

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so like I learned a lot , so I've known

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them for three weeks , but they're

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really good people , they have a lot of

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charisma and bring light and I'm really

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liking what I have , being the leader

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of his female firefighters

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a rewarding job

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as female you may think like

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it's hard like , okay , I can't do this ,

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but no , you can't do the same thing

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they're doing and just compete . Yeah ,