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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Women and the SFFD
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Date: Thu, 26-Apr-84 09:19:22 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 26 09:19:22 1984
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I found your proposal interesting.  I would like to add, however, that
there are any number of other positions on a Fire Team that a woman
could perform.  One that comes to mind is the Engineer.  This is the
person who operates the pumping equipment on the truck (at least in
the towns I know of around here).  This job is several steps above
being a fireater.  There are several other positions in a fire crew that,
if taken over by women, would allow a male firefighter to be reassigned
to hose duty, thus punching holes in the physical limitations argument.
T C. Wheeler