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there are common sense really. You wouldn't want anybody coming to your house that couldn't perform the duties of being a fireman. You couldn't, you wouldn't want somebody there that couldn't carry you out of your home. We do that all the time. So I feel each individual

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should be judged unto his own merits if they can perform to lower our standards or in other words reduce what a woman has to do just to give him the job or just to get them into place because there's a lot more problems than just fighting

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fires involved. Do this because of fair employment practices, state and federal law. The major cities of the United States now do not have any women firefighters possibly Seattle may have one or two at this time that they are training to become firefighters. But the major cities

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up to this point have not attracted women candidates. We are attracting them Now as Los Angeles did several months ago, san Francisco analysts and feel fire firemen's wives are going to react to women sleeping in the same bunkhouse as their husbands. I understand that in the

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cities that do have women firefighters, some of the wives are uptight about this, That's understandable and we will have to face that problem when it comes if women come into the saN Francisco fire department to re contemplate sectioning the dormitory off one portion of the dormitory

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for women and the other portion of the dormitory for men. In addition to that, we'll have to have a new rule that no one will be able to sleep in the nude in the dormitory. They will have to be a uniform code of dress for sleeping

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time in the fire station. So right now, there are no uncomfortable fighting a fire with a woman right next to you. Would you feel safe that she was going to protect your life? There's a possibility that I might not, but I do feel that if a

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woman passes this entrance exam, the second phase, which is the tough job related physical agility, she has proven herself up to a point now, after this next phase of the exam.