Five-fold increase in female applications to be firefighters following campaign

By Clare Colley
Updated April 24 2018 - 10:15pm, first published February 23 2016 - 9:26pm

A five-fold increase in the number of women applying to become firefighters in the ACT has been credited on a massive recruitment drive and marketing campaign to address the service's gender imbalance.

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