This Hispanic Muslim American female firefighter is going viral

In the United States in 2012, of 295,000 career firefighters, only 11,000 or 3.8 per cent were women.

Of the 295,000, 27,900 were of Hispanic origin - around 9.9 per cent of the force.

So representation for Hispanic Muslim American women in the fire service is, presumably reasonably low.

That's why Twitter user Rahma's (@mexicaen) show of representation has been celebrated by the users around the world:

She's received 12,00 retweets and a lot of applause. Seriously.

Deep philosophical questions were raised:

Just knowing Rahma is out there, being excellent, made a lot of people smile:

Which she seemed to appreciate:

She also later clarified her boots choice due following some criticism:

indy100 has contacted Rahma for comment.

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