Pictures of the racy Dec. 23 work party, reminiscent of the television police spoof, yesterday found their way from a MySpace posting into the hands of the Montgomery County commissioners, who fired a supervisor and denounced the judgment of all involved.

"This behavior was unbelievably stupid," Commissioners Chairman James R. Matthews said, "and doing it in front of a camera multiplies the stupidity."

Officials could not cite any mishandled calls from that night and said that the average call-handling time during the shift the photos were taken was five seconds, normal for the center. The longest delay uncovered was 13 seconds. A call-by-call screening of all the tapes from the night is planned.

Commissioners refused to name the supervisor they discharged, citing an employee's right to privacy, but they passed out grainy black-and-white photocopies of four pictures depicting the antics and defended the firing.

"If we're taking actions based on photographs, then you should see the photographs," Matthews said.

In one, a man - identified by a county official as the supervisor who was fired - wearing a ball gag and holding a phallic object poses next to another who is wearing a telephone headset and a laminated badge. In another, a woman wearing a telephone headset leans back in a chair with a case of Michelob Ultra beer bottles in her lap. The remaining two photos show men seated at computer terminals clutching bottles and what appears to be a hand-size doll.

Sean Petty, Montgomery County's deputy director of public safety, declined to discuss the incident after the meeting. Counting all shifts, there are 102 employees at the 911 dispatch center, he said. It was not disclosed who posted the photographs.

Matthews said there were no immediate plans to fire other employees unless an investigation turned up new evidence. However, the door was left open for suspensions and reprimands.

The photos came to light weeks after a disabled woman burned to death after her Jan. 29 Bucks County 911 call was bungled, and their capacity to damage public confidence in Montgomery County's emergency-response system was not lost on Matthews.

"That in itself is a malfeasance," Matthews said.