JOSSIE: IT’S NOT SOMETHING YOU SEE EVERY DAY. FIVE FEMALE FIREFIGHTERS AT PALM BEACH GARDENS FIRE RESCUE ARE MAKING HISTORY. A COUPLE DAYS AGO, THE FIRST EVER ALL WOMEN’S CREW WAS CALLED TO SERVE AS A TEAM. >> BREAKING BARRIERS. IT IS THE FIRST TIME WE HAVE HAD IN OUR DEPARTMENT AS THE FEMALE AS A CAPTAIN, FIREFIGHTER, RESCUE LIEUTENANT, AND MEDIC. JOSSIE: SOMETHING THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED AT THE DEPARTMENT SINCE IT WAS ESTABLISHED. >> THERE ARE MORE LAUGHS AND JOKES AT MEN’S EXPENSE BECAUSE WE ARE RUNNING THE SHOW. JOSSIE: ALL JOKES ASIDE, THE MEN THERE SAY IT WAS A MOMENTOUS OCCASION FOR THEM, TOO. >> THAT DAY THE STARS ALIGNED AND IT HAPPENED TO BE THE DAY THAT JUSTICE RUTH GINSBURG PASSED AWAY AS WELL, SO IT MADE THE EVENT EVEN MORE SPECIAL. JOSSIE: THEIR MESSAGE TO THE NEXT GENERATION OF FEMALE FIREFIGHTERS? >> WE CAN DO ANY
'Women can do it, too': First-ever all-female fire crew makes history
Five female firefighters were called to serve as a team for the first time since the department has been around.
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Updated: 6:04 AM EDT Sep 25, 2020
Five female firefighters at a fire department in Florida are making history. A couple days ago, the first ever all women’s crew was called to serve as a team. “We’re breaking barriers,” said Krystyna Heiser Krakowski, Rescue Lieutenant at Palm Beach Gardens Fire Rescue. “It’s the first time we had in our department a female as a captain, a driver, a firefighter, rescue lieutenant, and a medic,” she added.“Women can do it, too,” said Krakowski.It’s the first time this has happened since the department was established in 1963. “There was more laughs and jokes unfortunately at the men’s expense, you know because we were running the show,” Krakowski said laughing. All jokes aside, the men there say it was a momentous occasion for them, too.“That day the stars aligned and it happened to be the day that Justice Ruth Ginsburg passed away as well so it made the event even more special,” said James Ippolito, deputy fire chief of operations, Palm Beach Gardens Fire Rescue.Krakowski says her message to the next generation of female firefighters is to keep breaking those glass ceilings. “We can do anything, we are capable of anything, don’t let anyone stop you,” she added.
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Five female firefighters at a fire department in Florida are making history. A couple days ago, the first ever all women’s crew was called to serve as a team.
“We’re breaking barriers,” said Krystyna Heiser Krakowski, Rescue Lieutenant at Palm Beach Gardens Fire Rescue. “It’s the first time we had in our department a female as a captain, a driver, a firefighter, rescue lieutenant, and a medic,” she added.
“Women can do it, too,” said Krakowski.
It’s the first time this has happened since the department was established in 1963.
“There was more laughs and jokes unfortunately at the men’s expense, you know because we were running the show,” Krakowski said laughing.
All jokes aside, the men there say it was a momentous occasion for them, too.
“That day the stars aligned and it happened to be the day that Justice Ruth Ginsburg passed away as well so it made the event even more special,” said James Ippolito, deputy fire chief of operations, Palm Beach Gardens Fire Rescue.
Krakowski says her message to the next generation of female firefighters is to keep breaking those glass ceilings.
“We can do anything, we are capable of anything, don’t let anyone stop you,” she added.
