Austin Turner

Bay Area News Group

(MCT)

Fresh details surrounding last month’s release of a video featuring a scantily-clad woman stepping out of a San Jose Fire Department engine and into a strip club were revealed Tuesday that could add a twist to an ongoing investigation, according to media reports.

The video, posted last month but later deleted, shows a San Jose Fire engine with lights flashing and a marking that says “E4” stopped after dark in front of the Pink Poodle club on South Bascom Avenue. After a few seconds, a door opens and a woman in a bikini emerges, turning and shutting the door before walking toward the club’s entrance.

According to the new report from NBC Bay Area, that wasn’t the only adult entertainment establishment Engine 4 visited on the evening of Oct. 5. GPS data obtained by the news outlet showed that after the engine departed the Pink Poodle — where there had been no call for service, according to dispatch records — at 9:10 p.m., The engine then traveled approximately two miles to AJ’s Bar, a bikini bar on Lincoln Avenue, where it remained parked from 9:14 until 9:18.

Video of Woman in Bikini Exiting CA Fire Truck Prompts Investigation

SJFD spokespeople told a Bay Area News Group reporter on Wednesday that the department would not comment on an ongoing investigation.

Text messages obtained by NBC Bay Area also revealed internal department conversations surrounding Mayor Sam Liccardo’s scathing “heads must roll” statement after the video surfaced.

According to the outlet, a SJFD spokesperson texted fire Chief Robert Sapien Jr. that they told someone close to the mayor’s office that Liccardo’s statement could be “picked up as headlines that would reflect more negatively on the dept than necessary.”

Liccardo’s statement, which was not publicly altered or rescinded after its release, read:

“If the investigation concludes that this video is as bad as it looks, then heads must roll. We cannot have a life-critical emergency rescue apparatus relegated to a frat party bus, nor tolerate any conduct that so demeans the heroic work of the rest of our SJFD team.”

Bay Area News Group submitted record requests for internal information from both SJFD and the mayor’s office, but officials had not responded at the time of publication.

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For the third time in nearly as many decades, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development could be key to the city replenishing the Fall River Fire Department’s fleet of fire apparatus, this time through a $2.5 million loan secured through the Community Development Agency, HeraldNews.com reported. 

This third wave of HUD loans, if approved, will be used to purchase a replacement for the department’s Aerial Ladder Truck 4 and Engine Pumper 9, which is planned to be housed in the Flint/Reney/Eastwood Fire Station on Eastern Avenue, the report said. 

The application needs a nod from the city council which is expected to vote on November 22, but it’s a deal for city taxpayers with the CDA paying back the loan in full, rather than through the general fund, according to the report. 

A city official said he is confident that the $2.5 million loan will be approved, saying the council has always been supportive of public safety, the report said. 

For the third time in nearly as many decades, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development could be key to the city replenishing the Fall River Fire Department’s fleet of fire apparatus, this time through a $2.5 million loan secured through the Community Development Agency, HeraldNews.com reported. 

This third wave of HUD loans, if approved, will be used to purchase a replacement for the department’s Aerial Ladder Truck 4 and Engine Pumper 9, which is planned to be housed in the Flint/Reney/Eastwood Fire Station on Eastern Avenue, the report said. 

The application needs a nod from the city council which is expected to vote on November 22, but it’s a deal for city taxpayers with the CDA paying back the loan in full, rather than through the general fund, according to the report. 

A city official said he is confident that the $2.5 million loan will be approved, saying the council has always been supportive of public safety, the report said.