Pakistan welcomes more women firefighters

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Sania Samoo is among the scores of women who have recently joined Sindh Rescue Service. She's ignoring disparaging comments by her family and the public to keep doing a job she loves, and helping other women in the process.

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00:00I joined the field because I always wanted to be a part of the force.

00:11I always wanted to be a part of the uniformed force, so I applied.

00:16I am grateful to be a part of the Sindh Emergency Rescue as a DR.

00:30In this incident, a lot of people were looking at us with strange eyes and were taunting us.

00:39But we have been taught since the beginning, even in training, that you just have to focus on your work.

00:45You don't have to pay attention to what people are saying.

00:48You just have to focus on your work and keep moving forward.

00:52Because of the fire, there is a lot of dust, smoke, and skin issues.

01:02Sometimes, my family tells me to leave the field.

01:07But I am confident that I can do it.

01:10Because in any field, there are no girls behind.

01:14So I don't want to step back from anyone.

01:22The number of operational women is 80.

01:45Inshallah, in the future, about 180 women will go for training.

01:50Inshallah, you will see that the role of women in this service will be further defined.

02:01There are a lot of emergency reports in which women are often trapped.

02:05So work was being done before, but because women are more comfortable with women, they can talk to them.

02:14If there is a medical injury, they want to talk to women instead of male paramedics.

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