Albuquerque Fire Rescue: 800 more calls for outside fires year-to-date than in 2023

  • Source: KRQE-TV CBS/FOX 13 Albuquerque
  • Published: 03/22/2024 12:00 AM

VIDEO: They’ve created a special unit to deal with the problem but Albuquerque Fire Rescue (AFR) says the amount of outside fires sparked in Albuquerque has led to an alarming number of major structures catching fire along with them. News 13 talked with AFR about how fast the problem is spreading. Remnants of an outside fire AFR was called out to earlier this month can still be seen behind a strip mall on northeast Lomas Boulevard: “The fire was right up against the building and underneath the window so they recognized that the window had failed and the fire had gotten inside the structure,” said Lieutenant Jason Fejer, Public Information Officer for AFR. This structure makes the third outside fire they were called out to this winter which also caught a major commercial building on fire.



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