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Here To Help By Mary Ann Fatzone I'hey don't put out fires or M<i«- the big red machines , but MX women have joined the KirkviUe fi re department since • June when the department by laws were changed to allow women to work an emergency medical technicians on the KirkviUe ambulance For (/indy Steele, who was a member of the C'ato am bulance eight years ago after taking the emergency medical technician's course with her father, it was u long wait. 1 approached the Kirkville tire department about five vears ago,\ explains the mother of two, \but at that time they were not interested in taking women on their am i'ulance crew ' In the meantime, Mrs Steele, '\gave up' trying to get >n the ambulance and let her tcraee period to take the KMT 'etresher t i »urne run out She A ill soon begin to take the whole course over again I think thev have just iwakened to the tact that xi nee there'* n<> men around during the da\ and thev are siting more i alls women < an M \ rr\ h . I pt ui \ii t rw am • MI lam 1 think i t ,s iht h «-Ht thinn in \ v»- » vrr (inn*' she adds Ai , ,m Lakt thr ainbuliini « t>> • tin- and not have t<> take <me l th e men otl the hones to ii lend to the injured lieverlv /-at harias whose ni-hand (arson and thro* • Id er sons all Kirkville •iremen became inUTesU'd in \inmg one da\ when an • mergeiu > < all i ,ime i n <ind ••MI was the nil I \ \li e home I thought In ins selt li-tmi c.\ I can do thai s<ivs Mrs /.<u hari its \ov\ when a call ci >mes in -he her hushand and sons inswer it together It s something the com niiinitv needs and I have the- :ree time, savs the mother ot -.ix We help fill in the man power shortage dunng the day \ Mrs Zacharias, along with fellow crew members Dorothy Vis8er. Cheryl Rieder, and IJOIS Patterson, are currently taking the EMT course two nights a week ^at Onondaga Community College. Cheryl Rieder, whose hus band. 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