Station 63 isn't new to scandal, coming under fire for releasing its engines for use in a porn shoot back in 2008. (Tobyotter/Flickr)

"Whatever's happening at 63 needs to stop," councilman Dennis Zine told Cummings. "That falls under your leadership."

Back in March, the Los Angeles Fire Department admitted to submitting false response-time data that inflated the department's success, in order to meet national response goals. Following an audit showing that there were "significant flaws" in how LAFD officials analyzed and reported response times, councilmen Eric Garcetti and Mitchell Englander requested the department produce a strategic plan to improve emergency response times. Six months later the LAFD had yet to produce a plan, reported City News Service.

At Tuesday's city council meeting, Cummings defended his department's service, given the budget cuts in the past few years. He asked for $50 million to reopen a training academy, pay data experts and increase ambulance staff.

Garcetti said he was disappointed by the results and failed to see a strategic plan to reduce response times. Englander, however, praised Cummings for taking the initiative to assemble a task force to fix major problems within the department.

Yet falsified response times are only half the issue. 

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Fire Department announced it is investigating the Venice station for its participation in a "Firehouse Burlesque" video featuring a woman dressed in firefighter gear and hula hooping.

The video, published last week, shows a woman dancing with a hula hoop and is later joined by a firefighter with two others watching in the background. A spokesman for Cummings did not respond to an email request for comment, according to the LA Times. A spokeswoman for Hoopnotica, a company that uses hula hooping for exercise, confirmed the company posted the video.

This is the second controversy of its kind for Station 63. In 2008, a video was released that featured engines from the Venice station and one other in porn shoots. Cummings, who posed for photos with bikini-clad and topless women at the time, gave himself community service for violating rules about not bringing dishonor to the LAFD.

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