A King County Superior Court judge on Monday denied a request to overturn the sale of the former headquarters of the Seattle Black Firefighters Association, which has been at the center of a ...

HOUSTON — Milton C. Alford, the first Black firefighter in the history of the Houston Fire Department, died Tuesday at the age of 97, according to the City of Houston. Alford’s groundbreaking ...

Milton C. Alford, who in the 1950s was among the first Black firefighters to join the Houston Fire Department, died Tuesday. He was 97. In 1955, Alford and nine other Black volunteer ...

EMERYVILLE, Calif. - On the last day of Black History Month, KTVU is taking a look at the future through the eyes of the heroes we call firefighters. Molly Williams, known as Volunteer 11 ...

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While in grade school he dreamed of becoming a firefighter after not seeing a black fireman in his hometown department. On September 21, 1981, at 24 years of age, Duster made history by ...

In the 1890s, Adam Augustus Waterford, known as ‘Gus’, was hired as Portland’s first Black firefighter. Before 2018, he did not have a dedicated grave site until a group of eager students ...

They included the president of the International Association of Black Professional Firefighters; Wesley’s first fire captain, who she calls her “second daddy”; and Andrea Kaiser, who served ...

Clarence Williams remembers the Seattle Black Firefighters Association home in the Central District as more than just a place for tired members to rest their head between shifts. The retired ...

Their lawsuit also alleges the chief ignored their complaints over white firefighters playing music with lyrics that include a racial slur against Black people. An attorney representing Berkeley ...

With only three Black firefighters currently responding to calls in a department with 64 active line employees ― Capt. Nick Brown, a 10-year veteran moved to the fire investigation side of the ...