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An article and picture of Caroline Paul was published in the Reader's Digest in 1998. As soon as I saw it, I knew she was going to be my next paining.

Caroline Paul is an American writer of fiction and non-fiction. Caroline Paul. She was educated in journalism and documentary film at Stanford University. She volunteered as a journalist at Berkley public radio station KPFA, then in 1988, she joined the San Francisco Fire Department, as one of the first women hired by the department. She worked most of her career on the Search and Rescue team. Her first book was the nonfiction memoir Fighting Fire, published in 1998. It was a finalist at the Northen California Book Awards and an alternate selection for the Book of the Month Club.

Photo was in the 1998 Reader's Digest.

Photographer was Rex Rystedt, Freeland Commercial Photographer.