Summary
She's made history by becoming Britain's first female fire chief. Mitya Underwood met the woman in charge of one of the North East's biggest fire and rescue services
Susan Johnson is a mum-of-two, a strict vegetarian, meticulous about her health regime, and prepared to fight for a role she thinks she deserves.See the full content of this document
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Fiery Ambition Makes Brigade Boss a Pioneer
She left school at 17 to work as a milk tester for a dairy, married at 18 and had her first child two years after that.
Hardly an auspicious start. But now, 28 years later, Susan has become the first ever female chief executive of a fire and rescue service in the UK after being appointed to run the Durham service. She's also the first "non-uniformed" head of...See the full content of this document
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