New York City firefighters who posed with a bikini-clad Instagram model are at the center of an investigation, officials said. 

The photos were shared on the Instagram page of model Vera Smirnova who was seen standing in between four fighters at the Engine 8/Ladder 2 stationhouse on 51st Street in Midtown Manhattan on Friday. 

 

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‘I was on fire,’ Smirnova wrote in the caption of the images. 

Now, the firefighters could be suspended, a city official said. 

None of the men are wearing masks as they crowded around Smirnova who was seen wearing a fire helmet. 

According to the New York Post, officials said ‘members of the department are prohibited from taking photographs, videotaping or recording audio while working unless authorized’.

FDNY officials told the newspaper that the ‘department is aware of the photos and is investigating’.

‘Members involved will be suspended,’ the officials said. 

The Post reported said that this isn’t the first time a bikini-clad model was snapped with the city’s first responders. Instagram model Anastasia Fields flashed her buttocks while posing with two New York City police officers in December…

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