Twenty years after that first week of recruit school, Tiffany Green has taken the helm of the Prince George’s County Fire Department, becoming its first female and youngest chief.
Green, 44, is serving on an interim basis as she awaits a confirmation vote set for early next year by the Prince George’s County Council.
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Green takes over as the 13th fire chief of one of the largest fire and EMS systems in the nation that relies on both career firefighters and volunteers. She also joins the elite ranks of about 70 female fire chiefs out of more than 29,000 departments nationwide, according to an informal survey from the Women Chief’s Council.
“It speaks to a new era,” said Donna Black, co-chair of the Women Chief’s Council and the chief of the fire department in Duck, N.C., who notes that Green is also one of at least four female fire chiefs in the Washington region.
Green did not start her career with her eye on the fire service. She enrolled at George Washington University with plans to become a doctor. As part of her studies, she took an EMT course and had to go on an ambulance ride-along, and she wound up at Station 842, not far from where she grew up in Fort Washington. Green later went to work for the federal government. But she still volunteered at the firehouse.
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