After six months of intense training, 51 recruits became the newest members of the Cincinnati Fire Department Friday. Among them were 10 women, marking the largest number of female graduates in a single recruit class in the organization’s history.
The graduation ceremony was filled with emotion as the recruits celebrated their achievement together.
“And through it all we leaned on each other, when one was struggling, another stepped in, when someone fell behind we pulled them forward,” said one graduate during the ceremony…