Mesa Fire and Medical recently sponsored Fire Engineers Angela Collins and Sierra Aulik at the Women on Fire Leadership Symposium, in Salt Lake City, Utah. This conference focused on showing career women firefighters a path to help them grow their influence through engagement and advancement. Ultimately, events and education such as this support the goal of better representation of women in the leadership ranks.
Interesting to note - women make up less than 5%* of career firefighters in the US. Mesa Fire and Medical supports diversity, equity, and inclusion by actively recruiting women and other underrepresented populations, promoting fairness in procedures and policies, and ensuring all are welcome. One of the ways we do this is by helping to prepare our members as they advance in their careers. Our focus is on coaching and mentoring employees, regardless of gender or ethnicity; thus providing a bridge to produce and promote highly qualified professional firefighters of all genders...