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As was the case in Britain, women's fire auxiliaries were established in World War II in most jurisdictions in Australia [24] to fill vacancies created when male firefighters enlisted in the war. Tasmania was ordering uniforms for the Women's Fire Auxiliary in January 1940. [25]
Resulting from the activities of the members of the Women's Fire Auxiliary, a sum of A£3,323/7/4 was raised and handed to the Board for the purpose of providing mobile canteen facilities for the NSW Fire Service'. The Woman's Fire Auxiliary was inaugurated in June 1940, enabling women to assist in the war effort.
Auxiliary fire departments were intended to aid regular fire services in case of nuclear attack when it was expected large numbers of fires would result from nuclear blasts overwhelming full-time services. Most still in existence run support vehicles such as lighting trucks, air supplies, rehab units, reserve firefighting apparatus, and the like.
The Woman's Auxiliary of the Presbyterian Church, U.S. was an American women's religious organization established at Montreat, North Carolina, August 1912. [1] The organization was auxiliary to the work of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS) (also known as the "Southern Presbyterian Church") and became the only woman's ...
In September 1942, General Henry H. Arnold agreed to form two units of women who would help fly aircraft in the United States. They were The Women's Auxiliary Ferry Squadron (WAFS), led by Nancy Harkness Love, and The Women's Flying Training Detachment (WFTD), led by Jacqueline Cochran. These two groups merged in 1943 to create (WAP).
To achieve FIRE, all three women aggressively pursued higher salaries and additional income streams. Saavedra stressed the importance of asking for more money in your 9-5 job.
The Auxiliary Fire Service was reformed in 1948 alongside the Civil Defence Corps, starting initially with old National Fire Service equipment.However the role of the AFS was to provide mobile fire fighting columns that could be deployed to areas that had suffered a nuclear attack (it being assumed that the local fire fighting capability would most likely have been lost).
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