five_alarm
11-13-2003, 06:15 AM
Fifteen years ago this week Patty Byrd was fired by the Windsor fire department because she couldn't do five chin-ups. It took a four-year legal battle that ended in the Ontario Court of Appeal to win that job back, and now Byrd has become the department's first female firefighter qualified to act in the rank of captain in the fire and rescue division.
Source: Windsor Star (http://www.firehall.com/refer.php?url=http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=f32bc248-c825-48bc-b399-13b5b00dcac9&linkid=260&parent=news(headlines)&)
Source: Windsor Star (http://www.firehall.com/refer.php?url=http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=f32bc248-c825-48bc-b399-13b5b00dcac9&linkid=260&parent=news(headlines)&)