Remember how L.A. firefighters offered up the use of their truck to a porn company who used it to make cinema? Their artistic collaboration happened in 2008, so they're off the hook under the city charter's statute of limitations.

Back in April, we brought you the story of two L.A. traffic cops caught participating in a guerrilla porn production, "spanking and fondling" an adult actress who approached them in the street. Now it's the LA Fire Department's turn, as an investigation gets underway into allegations that firefighters lent their fire engine to two porn shoots, both of which are available to watch at your leisure on "one of the world's biggest porn websites."

Back in 2008, the New York Fire Department canceled its annual beefcake photo calendar because one of the men pictured had some blue movies out there. Cut to 2011 when the FDNA is so strapped for cash that the department has resurrected the guilty pleasure.

Just as we predicted now that the neighbors have taken up the cause against downtown hotspot the Jane Hotel, it's going to die the death of a thousand licensing violations. Now they've closed the ballroom to meet compliance.

New York Post staffers just got word via panic-inducing NYPD email of a "chemical explosion" on the 45th floor of their News Corp. office building. The explosion was "POSSIBLY CAUSED BY OXIDIZERS REACTING WITH ACID," reads the memo. "HAZMAT TEAMS ARE RESPONDING," and several surrounding floors have been evacuated. One person has been injured, according to a story on the Post's website, which identifies the explosion as occurring at 1211 Sixth Avenue, "on the 45th floor of a midtown highrise." This might be one of those times where self-referentialism is acceptable, guys. You'll be pleased and much reassured to know that the fire department "HAS BEEN TOLD NOT TO ENTER THE 45TH FLOOR." Memo after the jump.