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Volume 11, Issue 7, Week of February 24, 2014
Saskatoonʼs REAL Community Newspaper
Climbing the ladder Female firefighters have “best job in the world”
Deb Davies, Shauna Baccus, Catherine Baier, Shannon Robert, Holly Lindberg, Viki Cirkvencic and Sasha Atamanenko are Saskatoon’s seven female firefighters. (Photo by Steve Gibb/www.GibbArt.com) Tammy Robert These women live the life of any come after them. They are modern-day anniversary with the department. She, like Saskatoon Express average Saskatoon resident. Until they go pioneers in a world where firefighting still her peers interviewed for this story, has to work. is a profession that many women think absolutely no regrets. hey are mothers, daughters, sisters These women are firefighters. they cannot do or don’t want to do. “I was finishing a microbiology degree and partners. In a field that can still safely be credited Shannon Robert was 22 years old when at the University of Saskatchewan and You would be hard pressed to pick as wholly and completely dominated by she was hired into the City of Saskatoon’s realized I didn’t want to do that kind of any of these women out of a crowd — men, seven Saskatoon women have been fire department as a member serving “on work,” Robert said. “I wanted options whether they are hustling their kids off to quietly breaking down barriers and prying the floor.” In other words, a firefighter where you’d have more physical work to hockey practice or clicking a baby seat into the locks off the door. In fact they are in the trenches, putting water to flame. do and more variety.” a minivan without spilling their coffee. wedging it wide open for those who will This year Robert is celebrating her 20th (Continued on page 16)
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