Joe Napsha | Tribune-Review
Joe Napsha | Tribune-Review
Joe Napsha | Tribune-Review
Pittsburgh Fire Bureau Lt. Kari Burnham, the city’s only female lieutenant, at her Engine 13 fire station in Hazelwood.
Courtesy of Kari Burnham
Pittsburgh firefighter Kari Burnham responds to scene of fire in Homewood, before she was promoted to lieutenant.
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If Lt. Kari Burnham wanted to meet with other female firefighters in the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire, they could sit around her kitchen table with room to spare.
Burnham, a 35-year-old North Huntingdon native, is one of four women among the bureau’s 474 firefighters. One recently retired and another is eligible, Burnham said.