Brandy Flint has heard it all since she quit junior high school two years ago at the age of 14 and never went back. So, when she was 15 she enrolled in the Running Start program at Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake. She volunteered as a firefighter with the Ephrata Fire Department a year ago. And she started flight school at the college last fall. Every Wednesday night at 7 p.m., Flint and other volunteers gather at the Ephrata Fire Department to train.
Flint stands among a dozen or so yellow-clad firefighters.
Her auburn hair reaches past her shoulders, turning a deeper shade of red next to the fire engines. She also wears a yellow turnout. She's the youngest, and the only female in the group. Her age is really the only thing holding her back. Flint has helped fight several fires in the year she has been with the fire department.