First all-female crew in Vancouver Fire Department's history forms

KGW8 ^ | April 4, 2022 | Lauren Ellenbecker

[Antihero101607]

What could possibly go wrong?

[wbarmy]

Capable and well trained does not make someone capable of pulling a two hundred pound person out of a fiery room.

People will die because they won’t be able to muscle their way through a bad situation.

[V_TWIN]

“What could possibly go wrong?”

How much time ya got?

[Seruzawa]

What happens when people need to be carried to safety?

[Leep]

None of the women have extra equipment they are hiding?

[dsrtsage]

Reminds me of an old 80’s diddy

Feel the heat!
Burning Brighter!
Run Away!
Vancouvers on Fire!

[SmokingJoe]

How good are they at putting out fires and rescuing those trapped in fires?
That’s what matters, not what sex they are.

[Gene Eric]

No rational point of course.

[mrmeyer]

I weigh 225 and am 6 foot 4 inches tall. I doubt they could drag me let alone carry me.

[jimfree]

Terrifying.

[Nifster]

My thought too. First massive fire could be ugly

[Nifster]

Or handling a hose with full water pressure

[Fiji Hill]

Is this Vancouver, Wash.? Or that other Vancouver?

[wbarmy]

I wonder if anyone there is brave enough to ask if the test for admittance changed prior to the arrival of the women.

When men were the predominant fire-personnel hired, what did they have to do versus what people now have to do? And is the test different for men and women?

[M Kehoe]

Good luck carrying mayor Ford down 10 flights of stairs.

5.56mm

[gundog]

I was fishing at a local lake a few years back, and there was a water rescue class, I presume, being taught on shore. The instructor was a midget, in full fire-fighter regalia.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Everything. Especially when PMS gets synced.

[nickcarraway]

Vancouver, Washington.

[Texas resident]

Lifting a dead weight person is difficult. I am 5 foot 8 and 170 lbs. I don’t think they could lift me on to a gurney much less pack me out of a burning house.