Trouble at a DC firehouse: Captain and firefighter on administrative leave after fighting at emergency scene.
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(Updated at 9:15 AM)
For hours Monday afternoon DC Fire & EMS Department Engine 30 was out of service at the firehouse on 49th Street, NE. Inside the building, talking to department internal affairs investigators and members of the Metropolitan Police Department, were members of Platoon 1. The investigators were trying to get to the bottom of what happened between a captain and a wagon driver, two veterans of the department.
Sources have confirmed a fight occurred leaving the wagon driver injured. According to the sources, an ambulance run for the injured firefighter was initiated in the computer aided dispatch system, but no one was transported to the hospital.
Engine 30 was dispatched on a run to 251 56th Place, NE at 12:11 PM. Sources confirm the battle occurred at the emergency scene. By 1:08 PM the unit was out of service with the notation “administrative” in the CAD.
DC Fire & EMS Department spokesman Alan Etter will only confirm that an incident occurred requiring the services of the Metropolitan Police Department. According to Etter the incident also required the services of the department’s internal affairs investigators. Etter says two members of Engine 30 have now been placed on administrative leave pending further investigation.
