July 12, 2005 -- A Queens fire captain was suspended yesterday after admitting he broke protocol and brought a pipe bomb back to his firehouse instead of calling the cops, officials said.
Capt. James Goelz, 51, of Engine Co. 320 in Bayside, was suspended without pay pending a further probe into the Saturday-night debacle, Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta said.
The incident occurred amid a massive battle of the badges between the FDNY and NYPD over who should be in charge of certain emergency situations.
Citing terrorism as his motivation, Mayor Bloomberg signed an April 11 executive order putting cops in charge of situations involving chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear materials.
That encroached on turf the FDNY had thought was theirs.
Quizzed by investigators about the pipe bomb, Goelz, a 17-year veteran of the Fire Department, admitted that FDNY protocol requires cops be called when firefighters discover a bomb, fire officials said.
But Goelz waited 48 minutes before doing so
