16 California Firefighters Battling Backlash From Sex Scandal

A group of California firefighters were placed on paid administrative leave following an investigation into now apparently unfounded allegations of footage showing them getting it on in fire trucks.

According to Mail Online, the investigation began in May after Orville Fleming, fire academy instructor and battalion chief for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, was charged with murder in the death of a former escort who became his girlfriend.

The investigation stems from a murder charge against former Cal Fire Battalion Chief, Orville Fleming.

55-year-old Fleming, nicknamed Moe, was charged in May with the murder of his girlfriend, former escort Sarah Douglas, who had apparently been planning to leave him.

Scandal in the fire department: Sixteen firefighters with CalFire have been placed on leave in relation to an inquiry that was launched after a woman claimed to have discovered a sex tape showing her firefighter-husband having sex in a fire truck. Authorities say no sex tape was discovered and that the firefighters on paid leave leave were suspended for other unrealted policy violations.

Douglas was on the phone with her sister before she was brutally murdered on April 30th.

Court records show that the alleged killer not only stabbed Douglas, but also strangled her to death, in the home she shared with him, using a bed sheet.

Fleming was on the run for more than two weeks until he was found on May 16.

Scandal in the fire department: Sixteen firefighters with CalFire have been placed on leave in relation to an inquiry that was launched after a woman claimed to have discovered a sex tape showing her firefighter-husband having sex in a fire truck. Authorities say no sex tape was discovered and that the firefighters on paid leave leave were suspended for other unrealted policy violations.

Following to the murder, the killer’s estranged wife Meagan Fleming, reported that she had seen a tape showing firemen having sex with prostitutes on a fire truck at the academy as her husband looked on.

She claimed she thought it was finally time for her to come forward and report the misconduct.”

CalFire spokeswoman Janet Upton announced, however, that the investigation determined that no such tape exists and that no other improper sexual activity apparently took place.

The 16 Cali state firefighters have nonetheless been placed on paid leave since Monday for unrelated policy violations.

Fleming claimed at the Sacramento Superior Court in October, that he had nothing to do with his girlfriend’s murder.