Pittsburgh firefighters involved in the use of city equipment to work on a satellite dish at one of their homes will be fined $1,227, Fire Bureau officials said yesterday.

The fines stem from an incident photographed in September in which five men, apparently firefighters, used city ladders to remove the dish from the Westwood home of firefighter Thomas R. Pilch.

James Genco, a Democratic committeeman from Lawrenceville, presented the photographs to City Council on Oct. 12.

The captain of Truck Company 30 in Elliott "accepted full responsibility" for the incident and was fined $1,000, according to a letter by Joe King, president of the firefighters union, to council.

Neither Mr. King nor Fire Chief Michael Huss would name the captain.

Mr. Pilch was ordered to reimburse the department $226.65, said Mr. Huss, representing the cost of firefighters' time, gas, and the rental of the ladder truck.

Mr. King said he suggested a fine for the captain rather than a suspension because it would have cost the city money in overtime to have someone cover the captain's shift while he was off. The city pays an average of $1 million a month in overtime to firefighters.

An investigation was done by the city's Office of Municipal Investigations. The amounts of the fines were worked out by Mr. King, Mr. Huss and the involved captain, said the union chief. They decided to forego a hearing before a disciplinary board that is made up entirely of firefighters, Mr. King said.

The investigation found no truth to Mr. Genco's claim that firefighters made implied threats to someone involved in taking the pictures, said Mr. Huss.

Mr. King said he thought the fines were appropriate. "I just want a public apology out of Genco" for accusing firefighters of making threats, he said.

Mr. Genco said the fines were "better than nothing. ... Somebody better start overlooking these [firefighters] a little better."