The volunteer arm of the Long Beach fire department has been taking heat over a fundraising calendar it published of barely clothed female models, some provocatively garbed in firefighter gear and posing with department equipment.
City officials said the 14-page calendar showed poor judgment, and fire department officials were ordered to stop selling them. It was unclear how many had been printed or sold.
February page of a 2008 calendar, featuring semi-nude female models using the Long Beach Fire Dept. equipment for erotic poses. The volunteer members of the Long Beach fire department, with the approval of the fire chief, produced this calendar as a fundraiser. The city manager of Long Beach asked them to stop disseminating it after Newsday called.
(Handout / March 20, 2008)