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Durham Announces First Female Battalion Chief (Video)

Durham County


- She was told she couldn’t be a firefighter, because she was a woman, but a move to Durham changed all that for Tamala Wilson.

She is Durham’s first female battalion chief.

Twenty years ago, Wilson was fresh out of the fire academy in Durham pursuing her dream of becoming a firefighter, but she says she almost didn’t get there.

“My brother, when I was in high school, he was a firefighter and I wanted to join, but they wouldn’t let me, they wouldn’t let girls be in the fire department in the western North Carolina area,” she said.

She taught school for three years, before an ad changed her life.

Read the entire article at abc11.com.

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Another, longer video from nbc17.com.

Primary Agency: Durham Fire Department

Source: abc11.com

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Posted on Thu Feb 04 2010 at 15:04

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Reader Comments:

Very nice, long video posted by our friends at nbc17.com. Reporter spending time with the Chief around Durham Fire Station 2. (See article for link)

Posted by FNN Admin on Fri Mar 12 2010 at 13:07

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