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2 families displaced after apartment fire in central Fresno
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) Two families are getting help from the Red Cross after a fire forced them from their homes on Tuesday morning.
The fire was first reported shortly before 12:30 pm at an apartment complex on Yosemite near Voorman in central Fresno.
Fire investigators say it started on a stove in an upstairs apartment and spread into the attic space and an air duct.
Firefighters pulled down some of the ceilings and extinguished the smoldering insulation.
No one was hurt, but there was a report of a man who suffered a broken finger using a fire extinguisher.
Fresno Fire Department ignites change in male-dominated profession
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The Fresno Fire Department currently has five female firefighters and a female fire chief.
In a few years, all six are planning to retire. Before they do, they re igniting a change in the male-dominated profession.
Chief Kerri Donis has served with the department for nearly two decades and says the perception that women can t be firefighters is in the distant past. We have broken a lot of barriers and shown that we can do the job just like anyone else, Donis said.
In 2019, the department launched an aggressive campaign to recruit more women, including a one-day girls empowerment camp.