It began before she even arrived at the firehouse. By 2003, Firefighter Tracy Lewis had been happily serving in another house in Brooklyn for almost three years, where as one of the handful of women in the FDNY, she never found herself treated differently.
But after budget cuts shuttered her firehouse, Ms. Lewis was transferred to Engine Co. 257 in Canarsie, where she says that from the minute she walked in, something was obviously wrong.
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