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Yeah, yeah, yeah, mm hmm. Yeah. Mhm. Okay. What? You know, I didn't Mhm. Okay. Mhm. At first we were I'm sure a little curious as to how it work out woman coming into a group that's normally all men. And I think that initially there was a

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little hesitant about accepting her as a member of the group. But my evaluation of the men's feeling is that she's been very well accepted indeed. Well eric you've put Jeannie through a full fledged training exercise here this morning. How's she doing? She's doing quite well. I

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I didn't expect her to do so well just by the virtue of the fact that she's a woman, but she has a lot of spirit and she has a lot of enthusiasm and that's the most important thing. I think in other words, her training is coming

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along pretty well. Her training is coming along very well. And if she continues with this enthusiasm that I mentioned, I think that should be one of our first rate volunteers and you're gonna have to put the whole bundle on your shoulder, wait a minute if you

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get too anxious. All right, put that on. Okay, now don't let that's good. Now pull it all the way out. Okay, now there's another bundle that has to also be pulled. So walk straight back until you hear that bundle fall on the ground. Yeah. Mhm. Okay.

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The first thing to come out of the water. So when you're going through a fire. The first thing you want to do is get clear that you feel it coming out, go ahead and let them know what kind of moving back a little bit. Now let

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me show you something. Mhm. Get bob, go ahead, it'll do it. But well make the circular. Yeah. Yeah. Oh I went to a budget hearing for the District one night and heard that we needed two more firemen because there weren't enough volunteers during the regular work

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week. I suggested they use housewives and they all thought that was pretty funny. But when I thought about it later I thought I'd have to be the one to implement such an idea. So here I am. Do you think there's a place for more women in

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the firefighting or fire departments? Certainly, especially in the larger departments like san Francisco and Los Angeles for which they won't thank me, I'm sure. But because of the larger manpower there, uh they could specialize in areas which would probably be handled better by women. Do you

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think this is something for women's lib to become involved with? Very likely they might pick it up. Some of the more militant elements that certainly hasn't got anything to do with my feeling in the matter? Um I'm in sympathy with some of their aims, but that's

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not my reason for being here. Yeah. What is your reason? Yeah, I don't know my reason. I'm just here. I never ever wanted to be a fireman. But um when I suggested using housewives, I was the logical one to be here. It was my suggestion. I

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have to do it. I opened my big mouth so I have to back it up. I think you'll stick with him. I see. No reason why not. Mhm Jeannie, do you get a big thrill? Are riding on the back of a fire truck? Not really a

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thrill. No, I'm just curious as to what's going to be on the other end when we get there. Mhm. For Jeannie Kramer, this is no passing fancy, it's for real and she's becoming totally involved much to the benefit of the Tamil pious fire department. What do

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you was watching marin County? This is frank Johnstone.