Put down bikini women’s SJFD engines at a strip bar

Now, more questions have arisen in an investigation surrounding a controversial video showing a bikini-clad woman stepping out of the engine of a San Jose fire department and into the Pink Poodle strip club. The October 5th video was sponsored by a @sanjosefoosIt turns out that the Pink Poodle wasn’t the only adult entertainment club that the Station 4 fire truck stopped that night. A local TV station has been digging into the incident, as has the city of San Jose. So far, the official investigation process has been slow, with no major updates since the video surfaced.

There has been some speculation that the engine, marked E4, may be responding to Pink Poodle’s service call.Now we’ve learned that doesn’t appear to be the case, thanks to a public records request NBC Bay Areaaccording to the report, “According to department dispatch records, the pink poodle never received a service call that night that required a response from Fire Station 4 firefighters, raising further questions about what the engine was doing there and why the woman was in the truck start.

As if this story wasn’t embarrassing enough for SJFD, now it appears that minutes after Pink Poodle puts down the bikini-clad woman, the engine goes to another adult entertainment venue. According to NBC Bay Area, “At approximately 9:06 p.m. on Oct. 5, engine number 4 stopped in front of the pink poodle. The engine then appeared to slowly circle the block before returning at approximately 9:10 p.m. Pink Poodle. By 9:14 p.m., the GPS of Engine 4 detected that the engine was parked about two miles away near AJ’s Bikini Bar on Lincoln Avenue. GPS data showed the engine was parked for about four minutes before driving away.”

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo was immediately dismayed the day the video emerged, issuing a statement saying: “If the investigation concludes that this video is as bad as it appears, then people must shake their heads. We cannot Life-critical emergency equipment is relegated to a fraternity party bus, and any behavior that detracts from the other heroic work of our SJFD team will not be tolerated.”

As part of NBC Bay Area’s investigation, we obtained several text messages from fire department officials, one of which appeared to be asking the mayor’s office to downplay the statement, which didn’t happen. “I follow [her] Language about no accountability and ‘heads must roll and frat parties’ being chosen for headlines will have an unnecessarily negative impact on the Department,” a text message from a Fire Department spokesperson read.

The city has not commented on the recent public records discovery, nor has it said much since the investigation began. “The longer you wait, it hurts everyone who wants to support us because the men and women of the San Jose Fire Department deserve better. There is no reduction in 100 percent of the relief they provide to the citizens of San Jose every day,” retired fire chief Richard Santos told NBC Bay Area.