Tokyo Fire Department staff Private email to a woman who learned about emergency services Disciplinary action October 31 15:40

The Tokyo Fire Department staff received disciplinary action for sending a private e-mail to the contact information of a suddenly ill woman who was found during an emergency operation.

The 28-year-old vice chief of fire fighting at the Ushigome fire department was subject to disciplinary action.

According to the Tokyo Fire Department, after emergency transporting a woman in her 20s who was suddenly ill on September 2, she sent a private e-mail with the content "I want to talk" to her contact over the next day. .

A message was sent from a private mobile phone to a woman's mobile phone number that was heard during the ambulance service, but this was discovered when a female acquaintance contacted the fire department.

On the 31st, he received a disciplinary action to reduce his salary because he said, “I expected to develop a private gender relationship.”

In addition to this, a 21-year-old firefighter at Shinjuku Fire Station said that she had provided child pornography videos that she had filmed by herself. Both received disciplinary action for suspension.

It means that both of them who have been suspended have resigned.

“I would like to apologize deeply. I will make efforts to strengthen staff education and prevent recurrence,” said the director of the Tokyo Fire Department's Masanori Oishi.