Firefighter in hot water

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Former UNM Lobo Football player Brad Tate has been called many names; firefighter, bar brawler and harasser.

News 13 first told you about Tate in 2004 when two women claimed he assaulted them inside a downtown nightclub.

A few months later he was accused of starting a fight outside the Frontier; hitting a man and causing him to break his leg. At the time he was on suspension while the fire department decided his fate.

Capt. Gil Santistevan told News 13 in August of 2004, “If we do determine that there is a pattern here, certainly it will be looked at accordingly, and the Fire Chief will administer whatever discipline he feels is appropriate and necessary.”

Tate didn't loose his job as an EMT with the fire department and sources tell us he's only caused more problems since then.

Sources say Tate is being investigated for responding to emergency calls and telling patients they didn't need to go to the hospital. Some of those patients later had to be rushed to the ER with serious medical conditions.

There are also accusations he made sexual remarks to faculty while on an emergency call at an elementary school.

Then there is the lawsuit against Tate and the city for the death of William Rauch.

Matthew O'Neill, the Rauch family attorney says Rauch suffered major injuries in a crash caused by Tate,”(Rauch) was hospitalized for seven or eight days before dying.”

O’Neill says in 2009 Tate was driving a rescue unit during rush hour near Central and Unser when, “His call out was canceled I think right before he entered the intersection he turned off his lights and sirens but proceeded without stopping into the intersection.”

O'Neill says Tate ran the red light and slammed into the 79-year-old man's car.

“Mr. Tate has admitted t

Former UNM Lobo Football player Brad Tate has been called many names; firefighter, bar brawler and harasser.

hat he had a red light but continues to assert that he had his lights and sirens on,” said O’Neill.

But O'Neill says witnesses tell a different story.

The Rauch lawsuit is set to go before a judge in December.

Sources say Tate is on desk duty right now but AFD will not tell us why, citing a personnel investigation against Tate.