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‘I fell in love with it’: Salmon Arm woman always wanted to be a firefighter

Fire department celebrates its female firefighters on International Women’s Day
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Tammy Young beams with excitement when she returns from her first call with the Salmon Arm Fire Department. (Photo contributed)

When Salmon Arm firefighter Tammy Young gets home from practice or a call, she knows what to expect.

No matter the time, her whole family – sons 17 and 24, grandparents 81 and 82, and her husband will gather in the living room, waiting to hear how it went.

“It’s beautiful. It was meant to be in this family,” she says of firefighting.

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Martha Wickett

About the Author: Martha Wickett

came to Salmon Arm in May of 2004 to work at the Observer. I was looking for a change from the hustle and bustle of the Lower Mainland, where I had spent more than a decade working in community newspapers.
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