Meet the Bomberos - Oakland's Latino firefighters who helped transform the fire department
Briefly

"I took his classes, brought along some of my friends and one of my cousins. We took the test, and some of them got hired in that first go around."
"In the 90s, when I was a lieutenant at Station 13, I once went on vacation and when I came back, the guys on my crew said, 'you can't go on vacation no more. We didn't realize how much you use your Spanish.'"
"OFD's demographics have significantly changed since then, and that is no small part due to the work of Navarro, Padilla, and the firefighters they recruited, who continue their efforts today."
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