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Dany Cotton

Woman's Hour

Behind The Shield

Kidspiration.tv

The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast

First Women: LIVE! Pioneers in Your Living Room

Leon Logothetis

Mike Dolce

Brian Mackenzie

Margaret Gould Stewart

Matthew Pollard

Rob Jones

Kirstie Ennis

Jason Gardner

Dave Berke

Iris Gardner

Tim Kennedy

Jason McCarthy

Jason Redman

Jack Carr

Mike Ritland

OwlTail

First Woman Fight Director, Alison de Burgh, and Dany Cotton, First Woman Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade and  to receive the Queen’s Fire Service medal.

<p>First Woman Fight Director, Alison de Burgh, and Dany Cotton, First Woman Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade and  to receive the Queen’s Fire Service medal.</p>

Ep.2 Alison de Burgh and Dany Cotton

Dany Cotton spent over three decades serving with the London Fire Brigade, retiring as Commissioner. We discuss her journey into the fire service, forging diversity through mentoring, the impact of budget cuts on service and health, violence on first responders, heroism at the Grenfell Tower fire, dirty politics and much more.

Dany Cotton - Episode 349

Jodie interviews Dany Cotton, London firefighter and new interim Fire Commissioner, at Greenwich Fire Station. If someone says you can’t do something, do you say OK and quit? Or does being told “no” make you want to work even harder to do what everyone says you can’t? In 1987, when Dany Cotton was 18, she saw a newspaper advertisement for the London Fire Brigade. The Brigade wanted to recruit women and minority Londoners to become firefighters. Could a girl be a fireman? “Everyone thought I wouldn’t be able to do it,” she told Prospect.org, “and that it was not a job for a woman, but this just spurred me on.” That year, there were about 6,000 male London firefighters and 30 women. Learning to do the job wasn’t easy. Some of her fellow firefighters were suspicious or nasty or both. Several men at her first post transferred out and her supervisor said he didn’t think she should be there. Then three months into the job, she was on a team of firefighters who responded to a terrible train crash. Nineteen-year-old Dany did her job and won the respect of her fellows. Her firefighting skills were recognized in 1998 when she was the first woman to become a Station Officer. In 2002, she was named Public Servant of the Year; in 2004 she was the first woman to be awarded the Queen’s Fire Service Medal. And in 2012, she became an Assistant Commissioner. This year, the London Fire Brigade is 150 years old. In January, Ms. Cotton will become the interim London Fire Commissioner, the first woman in the Brigade’s history to have the position. She still wants to make sure anyone who is told “no, you can’t do that,” has a chance to try, even though some people still think women shouldn’t be firefighters. But when firefighters arrive at an emergency, she says, nobody asks who they are or where they come from. They are the ones running in where everyone else is running away. Jodie interviews Dany Cotton, London Fire Brigade firefighter and new interim London Fire Commissioner, at Greenwich Fire Station.

<p>Jodie interviews Dany Cotton, London firefighter and new interim Fire Commissioner, at Greenwich Fire Station. If someone says you can’t do something, do you say OK and quit? Or does being told “no” make you want to work even harder to do what everyone says you can’t? In 1987, when Dany Cotton was 18, she saw a newspaper advertisement for the London Fire Brigade. The Brigade wanted to recruit women and minority Londoners to become firefighters. Could a girl be a fireman? “Everyone thought I wouldn’t be able to do it,” she told <a href="http://Prospect.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Prospect.org</a>, “and that it was not a job for a woman, but this just spurred me on.” That year, there were about 6,000 male London firefighters and 30 women. Learning to do the job wasn’t easy. Some of her fellow firefighters were suspicious or nasty or both. Several men at her first post transferred out and her supervisor said he didn’t think she should be there. Then three months into the job, she was on a team of firefighters who responded to a terrible train crash. Nineteen-year-old Dany did her job and won the respect of her fellows. Her firefighting skills were recognized in 1998 when she was the first woman to become a Station Officer. In 2002, she was named Public Servant of the Year; in 2004 she was the first woman to be awarded the Queen’s Fire Service Medal. And in 2012, she became an Assistant Commissioner. This year, the London Fire Brigade is 150 years old. In January, Ms. Cotton will become the interim London Fire Commissioner, the first woman in the Brigade’s history to have the position. She still wants to make sure anyone who is told “no, you can’t do that,” has a chance to try, even though some people still think women shouldn’t be firefighters. But when firefighters arrive at an emergency, she says, nobody asks who they are or where they come from. They are the ones running in where everyone else is running away. Jodie interviews Dany Cotton, London Fire Brigade firefighter and new interim London Fire Commissioner, at Greenwich Fire Station.</p>

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