Teresa Janovitz doesn't want to be known as a female firefighter. "I'm not proud because I'm a female firefighter. I'm proud that I'm a firefighter," said the 36-year-old mother of two.

In 2006, Kareena Lynde was working in Shasta Lake, Calif. on a hotshot crew—a group of highly trained wildland firefighters—when she started to notice a sharp pain in her abdomen. At first she ...

Recently, when asked to train a female firefighter I didn’t know much about, I found myself wincing. It’s not an abnormal reaction to wonder what kind of assignment you’re about to be handed.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP) has expanded protections for female federal firefighters by adding breast, uterine, ovarian and basal cell ...

Female firefighters from different stations around Ohio took on the heat during specialized agility and fire training. Tom Hanks ‘storms out’ of SNL 50th anniversary concert Andy Reid to ...

Firefighter Lanie Osborne made the commute from Grand Junction to Boulder County to spend Saturday honing skills and creating connections with other women in the industry. Despite the four-hour ...

In Central Texas, there are still just a handful of female firefighters, many of whom never work a shift with another woman. Despite the low numbers, they say the women who came before them ...

When Battalion Chief Ashley Brackett began her firefighting career 10 years ago, none of the men at Travis County Emergency Services District No. 12 had ever worked with a woman. After she joined ...