d'Lisa Davies
d'Lisa Davies is a Captain I for the Los Angeles City Fire Department and a member of United Firefighters of Los Angeles City, Local 112.
d'Lisa became a firefighter after seeing an advertisement in the L.A. Times recruiting women to join the fire service. In 1984, d'Lisa was hired as the first African American female with the Los Angeles Fire Department.
In 2005, CFFJAC Chair Dan Terry appointed d'Lisa to the CFFJAC's Commission to Recruit Women for the Fire Service.
Firefighter Davies has continuously contributed back to the department as a member of the Fire Chief's Inter-group Relations Committee, Terrorism Committee and women's focus groups, and she is a West Los Angeles F.I.R.E. Academy instructor, a recruitment adviser/mentor, Incident Management Team member, Public Safety Officer (PSO), and proctor for the CFFJAC's CPAT Center in Orange.
Being an aggressive and much sought after recruiter for Los Angeles, Davies has participated as a panel speaker for the California Apprenticeship Conference in 2004 and 2006 and Women in the Building Trades Conference in 2003. Davies has also developed successful programs while assigned to the Recruitment Unit including:
• 25 Year Celebration of Women in the Fire Service for the LAFD Recruitment Conference/Expo 2002, 2003, 2004
• Mentor Program & Mentor Cadre
• CPAT simulated testing & Proctor Cadre
• Oral Preparation Seminars and Preparatory Interviews
• High School Recruitment
• Recruitment Literature Translations
d'Lisa is currently assigned to the Environmental Unit in the Bureau of Fire Prevention & Public Safety, supervising the LAFD CUPA.
Her hobbies include reading, swimming, river rafting, water skiing and "hanging out and supporting my daughter."