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“As long as I have strength and God allows me, I will being a firefighter & rdquo ;, exclaims Elsa (in the center), who commands the women’s brigade of the National District. GLAUCO MOQUETE/LISTÍN DIARIO
Facing various dangers and disasters that would make others leave in terror is the work that , for 30 years, has been carried out by Elsa Ramírez de Miura, colonel of the fire department of the National District. She currently commands the women’s brigade of the National District and has under her command 31 women who work in the various stations.
But those social commitments haven’t stopped her from keeping the flames of maternal love alive and setting a good example for her son. Today, this one, who procreated with her husband, Luis Miura, also a firefighter, entered the house. to the ranks of the relief agency.
She remembers that, when her son was a firefighter (that is what firefighter children are called), it was a difficult stage for this family because, although she is a mother, she was the commander of that firefighters corps and she had to demand to him more application than to the other minors. But she is pleased to say that when Luis Miura son was examined & gué; in the cadet academy, he obtained the highest grade of his entire promotion, an act that made him proud. to his parents.
“If my son heard a siren he would run after it to help in emergencies and there he was. He was with me on top of a ladder and a python putting out the fire and with his dad. inside saving lives”, says the colonel while emphasizing that the fire department has brought her family closer because it has made everyone think and feel the same.
ANÉCDOTA FAMILY
Ramírez de Miura recounts that, on one occasion, her husband and son attended an emergency where there was a leak in a gas tanker. When her husband arrived & gué; He went to the gas station. He looked at her son next to the tanker truck and said: & ldquo; you’re crazy, you can’t take risks like that”.
The colonel comments that it is precisely the three of them dedicating themselves to the same task that has led them to take care of themselves in this way. “Being all involved in the Fire Department made us love, care for and appreciate each other more and at home we began to analyze the situation we had experienced that day . In other words, what we could do better and how things should be done, always thinking about improving the body”, maintains Ramírez de Miura.
The colonel says that many times they have met in Catastrophes all the members of his family, and states that sometimes they do not even arrive in the same truck, but it is through different transports that they make their entrances.
“While we were at the Sederías California fire, my son was on the roof and from one moment to another the roof collapsed,” says the colonel. That day he did not lose to his offspring because another firefighter pulled the hose he was holding. Other colleagues were also in danger.
“Luckily my husband was on the third step and was able to throw himself to the floor, so In a single day I was about to lose my two loved ones”, details the firefighter.
Despite the difficult times she has had to live in the relief corps, she affirms that she has never He has felt fear, but yes. The shame of not being able to do more for the people who were in the claims she has worked on.
“When you you are in a fire, you what you want is to go inside and do your job, although sometimes the instinct of a mother and a woman makes us doubt the decisions we make”, she adds.
Impotence, despair and tears do not have been lacking in their work environment. “The worst thing is seeing the faces of those little boys who dont know what to do. What to do because they can’t find their dad? and their mother, and one has to take care of them and tell them that their parents are no longer in this world”, she points out.
The colonel says that this institution, which he entered when she was 31, she has opened her doors even more to women and mothers who want to join the agency. At the time when she started there was discrimination against them. Today she considers that the most difficult thing about being a firefighter, mother, wife and businesswoman is not having enough time to dedicate to her family.
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