Posted on 09/14/2015 6:07:53 PM PDT by markomalley
The Atlanta Fire Rescue Department is dealing with a controversy that has generated a different kind of heat. An ad on an escort website has recently surfaced featuring different women posing suggestively on equipment at an Atlanta fire station.
In one photo, one woman poses suggestively on a fire truck, while in another, the same woman dons a firefighter’s vest. In others, various scantily clad women don fire helmets and other rescue gear. Insignia clearly indicates that the photos took place inside Atlanta Fire Station 2.
The fire department has responded to the ads, according to Fox 5:
“The Atlanta Fire Rescue Department will launch an internal investigation into the matter, and will take decisive action based on the outcome of the investigation,” read a statement from an Atlanta Fire Department spokesperson.
According to firefighters, it’s not unusual for citizens to visit fire stations, where firefighters will often take them on a tour of the facility and allow them to take photos with equipment. What is out of the ordinary is the nature of these particular shots.
The ads appeared on the escort site Backpage.com, and they have since disappeared from the site. According to another news station, WXIA, the ads contained language such as, “Available now. Come experience this hottie” and “Satisfaction Guaranteed,” and indicated that the women were 22 and 24 years of age.
Representatives for Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said that the city has launched an investigation and will take “appropriate action” as needed, but the mayor hastily cancelled an interview with a news reporter when he learned that the interview would include questions about the photos.
The Atlanta Fire Rescue Department has been no stranger to controversy over the last couple of years. Last year, Mayor Reed sacked Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran over a book the chief had written in which he expressed his belief that marriage should solely be between a man and a woman. That incident led to a push for religious liberty legislation in the state. Fortunately for the city, the photo controversy should have a shorter life span.
What I was recalling was this ...
the city notes that Cochran distributed the book to at least nine employees, three of whom say they received it unsolicited.
Referring to interviews with multiple employees of the city’s fire department, the report concludes that “there was a consistent sentiment among the witnesses that firefighters throughout the organization are appalled by the sentiments expressed in the book. There also is general agreement the contents of the book have eroded trust and have compromised the ability of the chief to provide leadership in the future.”I think the 3 folks who allegedly received the book "unsolicited" rank right in there with the people who composed this "report." Liars and stooges who want a little more tax money to come their way. In fact, the book is a religious tract that the guy wrote for his Sunday School group and shared with a few like-minded colleagues. It got on the nerves of Atlanta's gay-like-Barack mayor, so he fired the man.
Somewhere, Benny Hill is leering gleefully.
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