It wasn’t the fire alarm, but rather thieves that brought Fire Station 9 to life early New Year’s Eve morning.
Albuquerque police said a trio had been cruising around in two stolen Ford F350 trucks, and they had their eyes on another one that belonged to a firefighter who works at the station near Menaul and Eubank NE. At around 5:30 a.m. Saturday, firefighters at the station heard a window break outside and saw someone rummaging through one of their trucks.
“They shout out the window, ‘Hey, get away from the vehicle,’ and then they come out and by then … they had all scattered into one (truck) and drove off,” Albuquerque Fire Chief David Downey said in an interview outside the station later in the day.