The Fire Department is mourning the death of one of the female pioneers in the Firefighter ranks in 1982, after a Federal Judge found the department’s physical test discriminatory and allowed women candidates to take a make-up exam.
Retired Firefighter Cecelia Cox, 68, was a member of the first class of 41 women who integrated a department that had been exclusively male since its founding in 1865. She went on to become the first woman to be assigned to a ladder company and then to become a ladder-company chauffeur.
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