Almost seven months after the San Jose Fireplace Division started an investigation into why firefighters allowed a bikini-clad girl in heels to hitch them for a ride-along close to a strip joint, the fireplace chief stated in a memo to the Metropolis Council that the crew had allowed the lady to experience contained in the firetruck as a result of “she persevered.”
The memo from Fireplace Chief Robert Sapien Jr. was launched Tuesday by the town of San Jose in response to public uproar that erupted after a video posted Oct. 6 on social media confirmed the lady, sporting a white bikini, stepping out of the firetruck and into the Pink Poodle strip membership.
The chief’s memo provided new particulars in regards to the incident that fireplace officers stated violated the town’s code of ethics and its insurance policies concerning metropolis autos and the Fireplace Division’s ride-along program.
“Solely in San Jose do you see a stripper come out of a firetruck,” learn the caption of the video, posted on Instagram by a consumer going by San Jose Foos.
The video sparked an inner investigation into the Fireplace Division in October, when then-San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo stated in a press release that “heads should roll” if the video of the emergency automobile stopped in entrance of the strip membership “is as dangerous because it appears.”
San Jose officers haven’t launched particulars about what disciplinary motion had been taken, citing metropolis coverage, however new Mayor Matt Mahan instructed The Instances in a press release that “important and acceptable self-discipline was taken because of the Metropolis’s investigation.”
“I’m upset and annoyed that Metropolis coverage doesn’t enable us to share additional particulars with the general public,” Mahan added.
In keeping with the chief’s memo, which is dated April 25, the crew assigned to the firetruck within the video had first given an “unauthorized, male passenger” a experience from the fireplace station to his job on the Pink Poodle on Oct. 5.
The memo doesn’t determine the male or clarify why the firefighters gave him a experience to the strip membership within the emergency automobile. When the fireplace engine arrived on the membership at about 9:06 p.m., a girl in a white bikini climbed into the cab of the firetruck and requested a ride-along, based on the memo.
“The crew first declined to offer the feminine with a ride-along; nonetheless, she persevered and was pushed partially across the block and returned to The Pink Poodle at roughly 9:10 p.m.,” the memo reads.
The memo stated the fireplace crew then left the world and headed to an industrial space within the metropolis, stopping at 9:14 p.m. close to AJ’s Restaurant & Bar, which based on its Fb web page options “nightly leisure that includes lovely bikini dancers.”
The firetruck stopped on the location for about two minutes earlier than heading again to the fireplace station, based on the memo.
The word to the Metropolis Council and mayor doesn’t clarify why the fireplace crew stopped on the bar.
Sapien didn’t instantly reply Wednesday to questions from The Instances in regards to the incident. He stated within the memo that the crew’s actions violated the Fireplace Division’s coverage and procedures for leaving its response space.
“The Metropolis has taken acceptable disciplinary motion,” Sapien wrote, “and now considers this matter closed.”
