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First Female Firefighter Sworn in in Westchester City
The Journal News ^
| 09-07-07
Posted on 09/07/2007 7:10:08 PM PDT by NoKoolAidforMe
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To: NoKoolAidforMe
She looks like she could kick Sigourney Weaver's ass.
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posted on
09/07/2007 7:13:21 PM PDT
by
mnehring
(FreeRepublic- The Fredquarters of Fred08)
To: NoKoolAidforMe
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posted on
09/07/2007 7:15:11 PM PDT
by
NoKoolAidforMe
(Fred Thompson in '08)
To: NoKoolAidforMe
I had to check the publication date. This is the type story you probably would have seen a few decades ago in most places.
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posted on
09/07/2007 7:15:55 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: mnehrling
As long as she could carry my 6 2, 240 lbs. butt out of a burning building
I dont care about her gender.
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posted on
09/07/2007 7:18:02 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Fred Thompson '08)
To: doc1019
If only that were the criteria for being appointed.
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posted on
09/07/2007 7:22:34 PM PDT
by
NoKoolAidforMe
(Fred Thompson in '08)
To: doc1019
As long as she could carry my 6 2, 240 lbs. butt out of a burning building
I dont care about her gender.
I'll bet $100 that she cound not do it. It's not a job for women. Never has, never will be.
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posted on
09/07/2007 7:22:35 PM PDT
by
BigTom85
(Proud Gun Owner and Member of NRA)
To: BigTom85
Ah, you are enlightened about such things.
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posted on
09/07/2007 7:23:20 PM PDT
by
NoKoolAidforMe
(Fred Thompson in '08)
To: NoKoolAidforMe
Five years after scoring higher than all but 11 men on a competitive firefighter's test, On a standard, traditional competitive firefighter's test, or a PC watered down firefighter's test?
If she can lug inert heavy bodies out of burning buildings, or drag heavy hoses around AS THE MEN DO, then good on her and the best of luck to her.
If she's gotten her place due to pussified exams and PC "women are just as strong as men" nonsense, then forget it - AND the men who took the same pussified test.
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posted on
09/07/2007 7:23:21 PM PDT
by
Lizavetta
( Politicians: When they're speaking, they're lying - when they're not speaking, they're stealing.)
To: BigTom85
But, but
she passed all the tests?
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posted on
09/07/2007 7:23:56 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Fred Thompson '08)
To: doc1019
Of course. Why else would this article be written?
To: BigTom85
I would take that bet.. Women may not have the testosterone to build bulk muscles but they are strong. My 5’8” 125lb size 6 wife can pick me up (6’ 200lbs).
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posted on
09/07/2007 7:25:03 PM PDT
by
mnehring
(FreeRepublic- The Fredquarters of Fred08)
To: doc1019
Not only did she pass the tests, but apparently she kicked most of the guy's asses.
Five years after scoring higher than all but 11 men on a competitive firefighter's test
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posted on
09/07/2007 7:26:27 PM PDT
by
mnehring
(FreeRepublic- The Fredquarters of Fred08)
To: mnehrling
how far can she carry you? (apart from to bed}
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posted on
09/07/2007 7:28:29 PM PDT
by
tired1
(responsibility without authority is slavery!)
To: mnehrling
Do you know what the physical agility test involves? Don’t believe everything that the newspaper prints.
To: mnehrling
But, could she carry you out of a burning building? Perhaps a trip that would be via many floors and stairs, without assistance.
Would love to see the physical parameters for her test, and her overall score.
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posted on
09/07/2007 7:31:59 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Fred Thompson '08)
To: mnehrling
Firefighters wear about 80 pounds of gear. Now compound that with running up six flights of stairs in a burning building carrying a hose and then dragging a 250 pound unconscious man to safety. Men are biologically and physically different from women. That’s not a sexist statement. It’s a fact.
To: mnehrling
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posted on
09/07/2007 7:39:04 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
To: BigTom85
We have had female firefighters in our county for many years. The standards were even lowered way back when so they could pass the physical tests.
You are right, very few of them make it very long at all. They all go off on disability for permanent injuries.
We have 1 left from the ‘burst’ of females that were hired. She figured out right away she needed to kiss the behinds of the right people. And she did. She became very high profile by volunteering to go on any and all high profile rescue assignments. She even went overseea once as a volunteer to train fire department personnel. She was gone much more than she worked and is now a Battalion Chief. rofl
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posted on
09/07/2007 7:39:43 PM PDT
by
sheana
To: NoKoolAidforMe
I’m not saying that women aren’t physically different, I’m saying that a women is capable of overcoming shortcomings through training and hard work and can (apparently) be capable of doing such things. Hell, I would almost rather have someone who had to work her ass off to get to that point than a guy who only gave 90%.
We are conservatives aren’t we.. we judge individuals, not their label. If she passed her tests (and based on the article, she kicked ass on her tests) and there wasn’t any special accommodations made for her, then oorah for her.
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posted on
09/07/2007 7:45:44 PM PDT
by
mnehring
(FreeRepublic- The Fredquarters of Fred08)
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