This fire department just made history with their first woman-majority graduating class

This summer, for the first time in the department’s history, women outnumbered men in the Richmond Fire Department’s latest slate of new recruits.

For Captain Jamila Flowers, it’s a historic milestone.

“When I first came in, I was the 11th female hired,” Flowers, who joined the department in 2001, told WTRV Richmond in early July…

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