LA Fire Dept DEI Chief
'You want to see someone that responds to your house, to your emergency - whether it's a medical call or a fire call - that looks like you,' she said.
'It gives that person a little bit more ease, knowing that somebody might understand their situation better.'
But many online said they do not care what their rescuers would look like, and if they did, they would want somebody who appeared physically fit for the dangerous job.
'In a burning building situation, I can assure you I don't want someone who looks like me,' wrote T Becket Adams, the program director for the National Journalism Center at Young America's Foundation.
'I don't want Temu Philip Seymour Hoffman,' he said, referring to the late actor.
'I want Ving Rhames busting in like the Kool-Aid Man,' Adams said of the Mission: Impossible star.
'It gives that person a little bit more ease, knowing that somebody might understand their situation better.'
But many online said they do not care what their rescuers would look like, and if they did, they would want somebody who appeared physically fit for the dangerous job.
'In a burning building situation, I can assure you I don't want someone who looks like me,' wrote T Becket Adams, the program director for the National Journalism Center at Young America's Foundation.
'I don't want Temu Philip Seymour Hoffman,' he said, referring to the late actor.
'I want Ving Rhames busting in like the Kool-Aid Man,' Adams said of the Mission: Impossible star.
