When two firefighters clocked into work Monday, they didn't realize they'd be making history. In a first for Spokane County Fire District 8, an all-female firefighting team ran the paramedic unit.
But Meg Williams and Jennifer Raudebaugh say despite Monday's milestone, it felt like any other day on the job.
"I still don't think anything different of it. I just show up for shift," said Williams, a firefighter paramedic. "The guys here are really great, so they treat us equal."
The two say they only found out about their history-making shift when their captain pointed it out.
"This is a totally normal shift," Raudebaugh, a volunteer firefighter, said. "We came up, we got dressed, we showed up and it was not an issue."
It was a first without much fanfare. Williams and Raudebaugh said they just wanted to do their jobs without making a big deal out of their historic shift.