There's not many jobs you can legally do at the young age of 14, but back in 1978, saving lives as a volunteer firefighter was one of them.
It wasn't age that surprised the ranks within the Odessa Fire Company when a teenager signed up--it was Susanne L. Shively’s gender.
She was the first female to join the volunteer firefighting company, and one of the first female firefighters in the state of Delaware. "I was hazed, I was teased; there was times that my life-saving equipment was tampered with...before I came in...there might be something in my boots or my stuff was tampered with, moved," she said. "My family was hazed. There was some threatening, some teasing, and this went on for a very, very long time."