Charmaine Ahrnes lifelong dream was to become a firefighter and help her community. Since becoming the deputy captain at Walcha, she has continued to break down barriers for women and inspired many more women to join the ranks.
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00:00 My captain is my next door neighbour and I chatted with him about what he's done
00:06 because he's been in for a very long time.
00:08 And just talking to him about it made me realise that it sounded like a pretty cool thing to do.
00:15 But it's such a varied job.
00:18 You don't know what you're going to do from one day to the next.
00:24 I was lucky, I actually had fairly even split in my phased training, which isn't that common even now.
00:34 But I don't know, it is still a very male dominated job.
00:42 I often turn up to jobs and people say "hey boys" and I look around and go "oh, there's actually a few girls in there too".
00:51 I just love it, engaging with the community and getting to get out there amongst everyone.
00:58 I think it's all worth it almost, all together.
01:03 It is really nice, my girls quite often tell me how proud of me they are and that's a really nice feeling.
01:13 They do get a bit touchy sometimes about how busy I am.
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