A mother and daughter are part of an all-women crew at a Tennessee fire department, the first in the region.
Firefighter Ashley Perdue and her mom, Carol Jones, along with Amber Hubbard and Krysten Kelch, make up the West Carter County Fire Department crew, WJHL-TV reports. Despite being the first and only all-female crew in the department, Perdue says her colleagues have been nothing but encouraging.
"All of the guys here are really supportive," she told WJHL. "I mean, they cheer harder for us than they do anybody else."
Hubbard agreed.
"They don't look at us as beneath them or say, 'Oh, they can't do that.' They're like, 'Get in here help me do this'," she said.
Perdue and Jones also are continuing a fire service tradition that runs in their blood. Jones comes from a family of firefighters, and Perdue's father—Jones' husband—is the station's chief, according to WJHL.
