Tag: 363.37 (Fire protection services)
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William H. Hamer rose from one of Atlanta’s first sixteen Black firefighters in 1963 to lead the city as its first Black fire chief. He died July 10 at age 85.
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Thelmetria Michaelides, the first Black woman and bomb technician in Maryland, is now leading Prince George’s County’s Fire Department.
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