Partnership between US Forest Service, HBCUs creates path for Black students who aspire to become firefighters
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A partnership between HBCUs and the United States Forest Service has created a path for Black students who aspire to become firefighters.
It’s a grueling way to spend summer break, but Mohead is relishing it. She never pictured herself fighting forest fires.
"Look at me. I’m really small. I’m really short. And then being a woman of color, that’s something, too. I feel like that’s more inspiring," Mohead said, grinning. "I got goosebumps right now."
The on-site fire academy is part of the 1890 Land Grant Institution Wildland Fire Consortium, a partnership between the U.S. Forest Service and a cluster of HBCUs comprised of Florida A&M University, Southern University in Louisiana, Tuskegee University and Alabama A&M University.
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