Alex Johnson (firefighter)

Alex Johnson QFSM (born 1967) is a British firefighter, named the "Most Influential Woman in Fire" at the Excellence in Fire and Emergency Awards in December 2019. In January 2020, she started serving as the chief fire officer of South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority (SYFRA). When Johnson started out as a firefighter in Derbyshire in 1992, aged 24, only 1% of firefighters in the UK were women. She said: "I never saw another female firefighter from one month to the next, there were so few of us."