Current women on the job answered questions from candidates and ran through drills to potentially prepare them for a career in the department.
The FDNY is working to get more women firefighters on the job and, in honor of Women’s History Month, the department held a recruitment event for women at the headquarters in Downtown Brooklyn. Laura Kavanagh was the first female commissioner in the department's history."We asked a bunch of our male firefighters, ‘How did you think of this?’ and what we found was that someone had talked to them early and someone was bringing them through the motions unofficially," Kavanagh said.
She was born and raised in Manhattan’s Chinatown. "Now I work in a place that is close to my community and to be able to go into an emergency and speak the language and offer the level of comfort to people that look like me, there are no words for it," Chan said. At the event, the women are in an environment where they can ask questions directly to a woman on the job and learn the skills needed for the Fire Academy which must be mastered for real-life scenarios.
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