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So excited! Women wartime training in Norfolk, where I served! 1915-1916 Original Film.
https://www.britishpathe.com/.../womens.../query/ON+032+G

#FIREWOMAN #WorldWarOnewarwork #Women #firefighting
#firebrigade #pump #water #Norwich #norfolk

Newsreels of Female Firefighters

4/25/2022

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"Newsreels of female fire fighters, UK WWI and WWII
WOMEN'S WARTIME FIRE BRIGADE aka LADIES FIRE BRIGADE - three silent films
News reel, silent.

1916 Women fire fighters of Dartford Fire Brigade, Kent - 
World War One.

1916 
World War One; home front war work; women. Yet more of the women's fire brigade; practising rescue work.

Women Fire Fighters - at City of London Mental Hospital at Dartford, Kent 1916 


News reel, with words and sounds. Hose Brigade 1930

News reel, Fire fighting demonstration for the purpose of recruitment of male and female civilians, 1941. Recruitment? Sign here! Pick up your fire suppression gear. 

News reel. 'Firewomen' gymnasts. 1942

Women's Fire Guard Action, England.

#femalefirefighters #Newsreelsilent #womenswartimefirebrigade #womenfirefightersofDartford #WomenfirefightersKent #Kentfire  #
Dartford Fire Brigade  #homefrontwarwork #womenfirerescue 
#CityofLondonMentalHospitalatDartfordKent #1916  #Firewomengymnasts. #1942womenfirefighters 
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Volunteer of The Year - co-founder of Angels Kerry

4/21/2022

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"In March 2020 Kerry and Jo set up a Facebook group called Angels of King's Lynn as a resource for people needing help and support. Soon Debbie was on board building a team of Activity Angels who posted 3 videos every day to entertain, educate and inspire, for around 6 months ..... some, including the Singing Angels) are still posting regularly. Kerry is still running the group, providing local information and advice to over 6,000 members.

We brought the house down when Kerry was announced as Volunteer of the Year."
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Celebrating 5 years since the launch of Fire Woman

4/4/2022

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The history behind International Women’s Day

3/8/2022

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March is Women’s History Month, and March 8 marks International Women’s Day. Kristen R. Ghodsee, a professor of Russian and East European studies at Penn and author of  “Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism and Other Arguments for Economic Independence,” talks to Penn Today about how International Women’s Day began and why the U.S. has been late to embrace it.
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E#FIRWOMAN #IWDS2022 #BreakTheBias #FightlikeAGirl
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Fire Woman TV

3/2/2022

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Click Find out more 👩‍🚒 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

#FIREWOMAN #youtubechannel #femalefirefighters #historymakers #seeitbeit #inspire #trailblazer 
#FightLikeAGirl #Rebel #Interviews #firstwoman #BBCfirewomaninterviews #
#InternationalWomen’sDay #BreaktheBias #lunchandlearn #NFRS #firefighting​
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Make Lasses 5

2/27/2022

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Scottish Fire and Rescue Service 
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NFCC Lunch and Learn to mark the International Women’s Day

2/22/2022

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"I’m very pleased to announce the NFCC Lunch and Learn on 3 March at 13:00-14:00 to mark the international Women’s Day."
"We have invited Jo Reynolds who was the first wholetime female Firefighter in the UK and we have a new firefighter from Norfolk who will be joining Jo Reynolds for the lunch and learn. we thought it would be nice as this is where Jo started her journey"
 


Please use this form to book your place.  Hope to see many of you there!
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​Please use this form to book your place.

#FIREWOMAN #InternationalWomen’sDay #BreaktheBias #lunchandlearn #NFRS #firefighting #employment #youngpeople #womenfirefighters #femalefirefighters  #firsts #trailblazers #careerchoice #youcanbewhatyoucansee  #HistoryMakers 

 
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Media interest, can a women be a firefighter?

2/17/2022

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The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 made it unlawful for an individual to be discriminated against in the workplace in relation to selection for a job, training, promotion, work practices, dismissal or any other disadvantage such as sexual harassment because of their sex or marital status.

The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 
prohibited sex discrimination in the workplace. Since October 2010 this has been regulated by the Equality Act. This legislation protects employees and workers (and anyone under a contract to personally carry out work) from less favourable treatment as a result of their sex.
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Where did the fire pole come from?

2/15/2022

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"Laughlin Fire Emergency Services, Texas
In recognition of Black History Month:
Where did the fire pole come from?
Once a common accessory found in nearly every two, and three-story fire station built around the turn of the century, the fire pole has been gradually disappearing from many of America’s fire stations today. Since the late 1960’s to current day, modern fire stations are frequently built with everything on the ground floor, eliminating the need for a fire pole. But to this day, hundreds of existing multistory fire stations still have and use them, mostly in older cities. But where did the fire pole originate?
Until 1878, spiral staircases or sliding chutes were common, but not particularly fast. Fire houses were also equipped with spiral staircases so horses would not try to climb the stairs into the living quarters.
Captain David B. Kenyon of Chicago's all-black Engine Company No. 21 worked in a three-story fire station. The ground floor contained the firefighting equipment, the floor above was for recreation and sleeping, and the top floor was the hayloft to store the winter supply of hay for the fire engines' horses. During transport, the hay was secured to a wagon using a wooden binding pole, which was stored in the hayloft when not in use. Firefighter George Reid slid down the pole to respond to a call for help once, which inspired Kenyon to create a permanent pole.
In 1878, Captain Kenyon convinced his Chief to make the necessary hole in the building and install the pole, after agreeing to pay for any necessary maintenance.
The company crafted a pole out of a Georgia pine beam by shaving and sanding it into a 3-inch diameter pole which they gave several coats of varnish and a coat of paraffin.
Despite being the butt of many jokes, others soon realized Engine Company 21 was usually the first Engine Company to arrive when called, especially at night, and the chief of the department ordered the poles to be installed in all Chicago fire stations. In 1880 the first brass pole was installed in the Worcester, Massachusetts Fire Department.
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23 Stunning Vintage Photos of Female Firefighters From Between the 1920s and 1940s, 2015, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s,

2/12/2022

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​ Event & history, female, life & culture   Some consider fighting fires to be a man’s job, but as long ago as the bucket brigades of the 19th century, women have bravely played an important—if sometimes invisible—role in firefighting. A collection below features 23 stunning black and white photographs of female firefighters from between the 1920s and 1940s, via BuzzFeed.
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