How many career female firefighters are there in Minnesota?
According to the Women in the Fire Service 2005 Status Report http://www.wfsi.org/women_and_firefighting/status_report.php there were 95 women on 8 departments, including two engineers, 15 captains, and two chiefs. Minneapolis Fire Department, with 70 (16%), at the time of the report, also had the highest percentage of women firefighters in urban career departments. Other urban career departments in the United States with high percentages of female firefighters include Madison, WI (15%), San Francisco, CA (15%), Boulder, CO (14%), and Miami Dade County, FL (13%). No organization that we know of at present tracks female volunteer firefighters or female wildland firefighters.A good Minnesota resource for women wanting to know about female firefighters is the North Star Womens Firefighters Association http://www.nswfa.
According to the Women in the Fire Service 2005 Status Report http://www.wfsi.org/women_and_firefighting/status_report.php there were 95 women on 8 departments, including two engineers, 15 captains, and two chiefs. Minneapolis Fire Department, with 70 (16%), at the time of the report, also had the highest percentage of women firefighters in urban career departments. Other urban career departments in the United States with high percentages of female firefighters include Madison, WI (15%), San Francisco, CA (15%), Boulder, CO (14%), and Miami Dade County, FL (13%). No organization that we know of at present tracks female volunteer firefighters or female wildland firefighters. A good Minnesota resource for women wanting to know about female firefighters is the North Star Womens Firefighters Association http://www.nswfa.
