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Women on Fire

20/03/2007

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One CambridgeshireLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Two-part documentary in which single mother Aimi Walker-Brownlow and receptionist Sarah Clark try to realise their ambition of becoming firefighters in just 16 days.

On Humberside's gruelling training course they must lift heavy ladders, keep their cool when faced with fires raging at temperatures that can melt metal and rescue casualties from burning buildings. They want to blaze a trail and be among the fraction of women who make the grade in one of Britain's most dangerous jobs. Show less

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