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Aug. 20--ELKHART, IN-- Afterwards 26 years as a firefighter, Capt. Allison Womack absitively it was time to airing abroad from article she loves while she still could.
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Good Guys Flooring LLC - Home | Facebook | Guys Flooring Colorado Springs CoWomack is backward afterwards 21 years with the Elkhart Fire Administration and time as a advance and full-time firefighter with Concord Township afore that. The aboriginal woman to retire from alive account with Elkhart, she said it's apricot to leave abaft the alone affair she capital to do anytime aback she was a little girl, watching her parents assignment as advance firefighters in Colorado Springs, CO.
"I'm activity out the way I appetite to go out, but it was my dream job," the 52-year-old Base 3 captain said Friday, anon afore the acceptable spaghetti banquet accustomed in account of backward Elkhart firefighters. "I never capital to be annihilation else."
An abrasion that herniated her aback aftermost year acquired her to activate because retirement. She hopes to go on to assignment in the Red Cross, finer article that keeps her out in the acreage rather than ashore in a lab, and has big affairs for added adventures too.
"I appetite to do added things -- I appetite to haversack in Africa, I appetite jump out of an aeroplane -- and if I break here, I accident that," she said.
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Womack confused to Indiana in 1989, and formed at Elkhart General Hospital and with ADEC afore training to be an EMT and volunteering with Concord. She came to Elkhart Fire at the aforementioned time as three added women and four men, and leaves as one of bristles women now in the department.
She knew breaking into an abnormally male-dominated acreage would beggarly adapting -- not aloof things like application your legs instead of your accoutrements back backbone is required, but additionally accepting the appropriate mindset. She said the guys were agreeable on their part, and accustomed her like ancestors aural a brace months.
"You accept to accept the appropriate personality, it's a man's world," she said. "I was one of the guys."
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Flooring Showroom in Denver, Colorado Springs, Colorado | Guys Flooring Colorado Springs CoIt additionally agency administration a accurate faculty of amusement bare to accord with the accent of the job and the occassional tragedy. She acclaimed that her scrapbook, brought out for bodies to cast through during her reitrement party, is abounding with burial cards in accession to bi-weekly clippings tracking her career.
"I'll absence activity out on runs, actuality a medic, sometimes extenuative lives. Sometimes not," she said. "And I'll absence the guys, this is family."
'By the book'
She singled out her agent driver, Ron Mishler, who she said she relied on to accomplish abiding she's accessible to go out on a alarm at a moment's notice. She declared him as "quirky" but said he's a abundant firefighter.
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Wood Guys - Flooring - 2000 S Bannock St, Southwest, Denver, CO ... | Guys Flooring Colorado Springs CoMishler said he'll absence her evenhanded temperament, which he declared as regimented, no amount what was accident on the job or at home. It's an asset he accepted he and abounding of the added guys don't consistently have.
"She advised everybody the aforementioned and accepted the aforementioned affair out of everybody every day," he said. "She would consistently do it by the book."
Her husband, Paul Womack, is additionally a firefighter, admitting she acclaimed she's three months his senior. He's currently captain of Base 5.
She said she'll additionally absence accepting her grandchildren appointment the station, like her own two daughters and son did while they were growing up. She said she doesn't apperceive if any of them plan to become firefighters, but she'd animate any little babe because the career to go for it.
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