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Police Investigating Incident At Firehouse

Woman Says Alleged Hazing Incident Terrorized Her

POSTED: 7:16 p.m. EST March 17, 2003

A female firefighter says that she was the victim of a frightening incident involving her fellow firefighters.

Five firefighters are being investigated after the 28-year-old woman says she was terrorized during a hazing incident on Feb. 22.

The woman said five men, dressed in masks that covered their faces, burst into the room she was sleeping in at Station 71 at 1:30 a.m. She said the men were carrying an air horn, flashlights, and rope. She said they tried to hogtie her, but she broke away, and pulled the mask off one man, but didn't get a good look at any of them, and they ran from the station.

The woman's attorney, Joseph Carter, said, "As a woman you fear the worst. You don't know what's happening."

Police said even though the woman didn't see her assailants, they were caught on surveillance tape coming and going. Now five firefighters, including one who was on duty at the time and a lieutenant from another shift, are all under investigation.

So far, according to Channel 10 reporter Jeff Weinsier, no one has been reprimanded, transferred, or suspended.

Don Tetito, with the Coral Springs police, said, "Right now it's just an allegation and an investigation by the Coral Springs Police Department, so we're awaiting their judgment as to whether they are going to press charges or not."

Joseph said it probably wouldn't have become a police investigation if they men had just talked to the woman and explained themselves.

Now they face possible felony charges of battery on a firefighter and false imprisonment.

The Coral Springs Fire Department would not comment on the ongoing investigation.

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