Elmore County High School student seeks career as firefighter after being named homecoming queen

Cliff Williams
Cliff Williams
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Dec 16, 2025
Dec 16, 2025 Updated Dec 16, 2025

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File / TPI Elmore County High School’s Kristina Elmore is this year’s homecoming queen but she is also a firefighter.

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File / TPI Elmore County High School’s Kristina Elmore is this year’s homecoming queen but she is also a firefighter.

Elmore County High School senior Kristina Elmore doesn’t mind trying new things.

While Elmore has grown up in the Seman community, she has traveled the state with club soccer, taking her from rural Alabama fields to metro pitches. During her senior year and almost on a whim, Elmore got in the running for ECHS’s homecoming court. A few weeks later she was named queen. But the last couple of years she has been learning and training to be a firefighter.

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Elmore County High School student seeks career as firefighter after being named homecoming queen

Cliff Williams

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