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    OMG ! I know these two dancers

    By VALERIE KALFRIN , The Tampa Tribune
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    Naked photos of two strippers at a city fire station, including one wearing a bikini top and clutching a fire hose, cost a fire captain and former union president hisjob Wednesday.
    Capt. Al Suarez was fired and four others suspended after an internal investigation discovered the photos taken Oct. 17 at Fire Station 21 in New Tampa.

    Suarez, 44, arranged for two unidentified men and the women, identified only as Jamie and Heather, to visit the station about three weeks before the women performed at his bachelor party in Odessa, investigators said. Tampa police and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement later found 97 pictures from the fire station photo shoot on the Internet, some depicting genitals.

    Suarez met Heather through Thee Dollhouse Lounge on West Shore Boulevard. One of the suspended firefighters, Michael Berwald, works there off-duty, investigators said.

    During the inquiry, which began in December, officials learned Suarez urged Berwald and the others to lie about his and their involvement. He threatened ``career repercussions'' if they didnot protect his identity and offered to pay one man's salary if he were fired, reports show.

    ``I am appalled,'' Fire Chief Dennis Jones said. ``Any time we're talking about nude females or anyone nude in the fire station, it's embarrassing.''

    Suarez led Local 754 of the International Association of Fire Fighters for about seven years. He married Samantha Ward, who works for the public defender's office, on Nov. 6. Jones, Mayor PamIorio and former Mayor Dick Greco attended the wedding.

    Suarez supported Iorio during her mayoral campaign. She said she was surprised and disappointed in him Wednesday.

    ``Trying to cover it up, then trying to get the others to be untruthful, that kind of behavior is totally unacceptable,'' Iorio said.

    Greco also was stunned. ``Al's a real nice guy, but that's a horrific mistake,'' he said. ``You wonder what in the world anybody was thinking.''

    Suarez earned about $76,000 a year. He will use annual leave until Feb. 12, when he retires after 20 years with an annual pension of $44,000. The firing means he forfeits $4,707 in unused sick leave.

    The firefighters' union said it may appeal. ``We don't want to see anyone terminated over what we'd consider a momentary lapse of judgment,'' union president Larry Parker said.

    Reports show Suarez, who was off duty, called Stephen Johnson, a driver engineer and the station supervisor that night, to say he was ``coming by with some friends to take pictures of thefiretruck.'' Suarez asked firefighter Michael Campbell and Berwald to tape garbage bags over the station windows.

    Johnson ``expressed dismay'' at seeing one of the women topless but should have called a supervisor, reports state. Johnson, 41, earns about $65,000 a year and will lose about $5,000 duringhis four-week suspension.

    Firefighter Michael Layton, 37, will lose about $3,500 in pay over three weeks. Berwald, 36, and Campbell, 25, each will lose about $1,300 in pay over two weeks.

    None could be reached for comment Wednesday. Personnel records show none has prior discipline.

    An anonymous phone call on Dec. 20 started the investigation.

    Jones said he at first thought the complaint was bogus, but within weeks investigators found photos on the Internet with enough detail to identify the truck as one at Station 21.

    They also found an online diary from one of the strippers in which she wrote: ``We went to this Fire Dept. and she took a reeeealy cute set of pics of me! It was a lot of fun, but there was atotal audience. There were like 5 guys (cute I might add) that were sitting in chairs gawking ... hehe!''

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    I just heard this on the radio today.

    People are just too serious.

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    Seriously ! I can't tell you how nice the firefighters who used to come into Scarlett's were- this is just silly ! These guys work 24 hour shifts they deserve a little fun from time to time. And who did those photos really hurt anyway?

    Grrrrr !

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    So, some girls got naked in the firestation. Who cares. I can't believe they made such a big deal about it. I used to work at Thee Dollhouse in Tampa. I wonder if I know those girls.

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    omg, i just heard this on the news too!


    they fired them!!! wow!

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    Default Re: Fireman Fired over Stripper Photo

    How redundant, firemen who were fired but seriously, I must keep a low profile myself, this SC thing isn't good on MY resumé...



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    That is totally ridiculous! I mean we're talking about naked women for god's sake not people smoking crack in the firehouse. I hope they fight it.

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    A similar thing happened in a town in upstate NY, only it was prostitutes and they were "keeping the firemen company" while they waited around for a fire call to come in.

    It happens more often than you think. I find it ridiculous the way Tampa handles "crime" in their city. The police literally turn their heads to prostitution going on in clubs, drugs being sold in the clubs and outside of the clubs, but it's very, very important that they catch the firemen looking at "naughty naked pictures." Maybe my priorities are screwed up.

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    Default Re: Fireman Fired over Stripper Photo

    soooooooo.... where are the pictures ?

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    I agree with a_guy.....where ARE the pictures?

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    Default Re: Fireman Fired over Stripper Photo

    I want to see the pic's too!!!



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    Default Re: Fireman Fired over Stripper Photo

    I think the only time I would be pissed off is if I called in a fire and my house burned down because the men were too busy with the girls. HOWEVER, I am sure my broken heart would be mended by the firemen...or at least the pics.

    Other than that...geezus chrikes...must be the same people firing the firemen as were the ones who knocked down the snow cock.

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    No wonder this business keeps going down. It is considered gosh for anyone in a govt or higher profile position to have anything to do with strippers.

    This is beyond ridiculous. I think it's past time for a public outcry of this nonsense. This business which is and always has been a form of traditional mens entertainment, has been made a disgrace by our powers to be.

    What a shame!

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    Default Re: Fireman Fired over Stripper Photo

    Quote Originally Posted by VenusGoddess
    Other than that...geezus chrikes...must be the same people firing the firemen as were the ones who knocked down the snow cock.

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    Default Re: Fireman Fired over Stripper Photo

    Considering they work long hours in a dangerous job, I'd say they should be allowed to blow off a little steam once in a while. Sounds like overreaction by local officials. They would probably be shocked to see the stuff hanging up in the break rooms of Police Stations too.

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