The incident involves a San Fransisco fireman who was responding to a false alarm and struck a motorcyclist in an intersection; the June 29th impact sent the biker, ironically, into a fire hydrant, he sustained a punctured lung and broken ribs.

Now if this was John Q citizen there would be talk of arrests and pending charges - not in this case. The SFGate reports that two members of San Francisco Fire Department's top brass and three lower-ranking firefighters face possible suspensions stemming from the incident.

The commanders were in charge of the crash scene shortly after firefighter Michael Quinn, 43, struck and seriously injured motorcyclist Jack Frazier.

Quinn had been ordered to wait at the crash scene to submit to drug and alcohol tests. Instead, he left and went to the Chieftain bar, just a few feet from where the crash happened, and drank large amounts of water, sources said.

Sources have said that a surveillance camera filmed Quinn guzzling water at a bar at Fifth and Howard streets after the crash.

When Quinn did finally return to the station house he submitted to BAC testing which revealed, even after attempting to skew the results with water consumption, a blood alcohol content of 0.13, which is greater than the CA limit of 0.08.

Chief Joanne Hayes-White said "different decisions could have been made that night." No mention of any pending criminal charges are in the SFGate report.