First Female Officer Elected To Patchogue Fire Department: Report

PATCHOGUE, NY — For the first time in its over 100-year history, a woman has become an officer at the Patchogue Fire Department, the Long Island Advance reported.

Class A Firefighter Morgan Poulos Keating was elected first lieutenant of the Euclid Company — a role in which she'll organize and drum up support for company training, according to the newspaper.

Keating, now 31, joined the department as a probationary firefighter at age 24. She was then promoted to firefighter, the newspaper reported.

"It was my responsibly to step up and be a leader like the guys in the company have done before," Poulos Keating told the Long Island Advance. "It's a job, and I will think of it as an accomplishment when I do my job well."

Poulos Keating holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from SUNY Maritime College and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Stony Brook University, according to her LinkedIn profile.

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