A borough resident has made an official complaint to Hightstown's council about a hip hop video partially filmed at the borough's volunteer fire station that features its apparatus.
The video is for a song called "IDK" by New Jersey performer Elite Motivated, and it was filmed and directed by Patrick Byas, an actor and director from Hightstown.
The shoot took place in the spring and the borough's fire chief, Scott Jenkins, arranged for two fire company trucks to be pulled to the front of the station and have their emergency lights activated for Byas.
And that - and the video's themes - are big issues for Douglas Mair, who ran for mayor in 2014.
Mair said he questions whether Jenkins should have allowed the shoot, if permits and insurance were needed or other permissions. Plus , and he's concerned that the borough was not represented in a good light, considering some of the video's content.
"He's a volunteer chief, the taxpayers own the property and that is borough equipment (the trucks)," Mair said.