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Boston Fire cadet pipeline brings record number of women to recruit class, department says
Summary
The department presented its cadet program and recruitment pipeline at the May 13 Ways and Means hearing, highlighting a record eight women in the current recruit class and outreach to Boston neighborhoods.
The Boston Fire Department told the City Council Committee on Ways and Means on May 13 that it is expanding recruitment efforts and youth pipelines and that the most recent recruit class includes a record number of women.
Michael Gaskins, recruitment officer for the Boston Fire Department, told the committee that “in April, we had our first set of cadets, we referred to them as alpha cadets,…
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