The U.S. Forest Service camp aims to help the agency boost its number of women firefighters
Teenage girls work a fire hose and nozzle during training for hose lay. The girls are part of the 31 teenagers taking part in the Girls in Green program hosted by the Cleveland Forest at Kitchen Creek Helibase on Saturday, June 29, 2024, in Pine Valley, CA. In the midst of the summer heat at Kitchen Creek Helibase in Pine Valley on Saturday, more than two dozen teen girls worked together to learn some of the fundamental skills they’d need to become wildland firefighters.
Thirty-one girls from the greater San Diego area, aged 16 to 18, participated in the four-day training camp led by dozens of female wildland professionals from across the state in a bid to recruit more women into firefighting. “It’s not a fire season, it’s a fire year,” said Samantha Fausel, the operations section chief for Girls in Green who typically works at Camp Ole Fire Station on Mt. Laguna. “The more that the environment changes, we’re dealing with year-round.”
Attendees received an introduction to wildland firefighting along with first aid skills and basic survival techniques. On Saturday, campers were introduced to a firefighting helicopter crew who walked them through the various equipment on the aircraft. “When people think ‘firefighter,’ they think municipalities, … so knowing that there is a land management agency that does fire is pretty spectacular,” Bilz said. “Looking around, we’re all different sizes, and yet we’ve all done this job.”
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