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Molly Williams

This woman indeed is famous. That’s the reason why I’m

writing this. She went from glory to glory, a beautiful woman

and a beautiful story. She is a tremendous encouragement

to female firefighters throughout the country: to know her

history, thousands are hungry. Her accomplishments, we

should take to the mountain and shout! She was a slave

to a Captain of a fire house, in 1815 see, she was volunteer

#11 for Oceanus in New York City. She has even encouraged

me as a writer. Molly is a prototype of all female firefighters.

She is simply amazing. She makes others want to succeed.

Molly was known for beating the horses hitched to the wagon

on the way to fires in NYC. Miss Williams got around. She

pulled the pumber to fires through the deep snow drifts

of the blizzard of 1818 to save towns. The work she

did made her heart glad. While she was known for

wearing an apron and a doo rag. This woman I salute,

she wore the first fire lady boot. She seemed to never

get tired, but was full of strength, character and was

respected by her fellow firefighters.