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Drunk driver causes fire - who will put it out?

From KRQE-TV.com - by Scott Daniels, KRQE News 13 - After a suspected drunken driver smashed into a house near Edith Boulevard and Osuna Road in northeast Albuquerque Sunday, the house caught fire. Now Chris Gallegos' home is in shambles. A neighbor's video shows the Albuquerque Fire Department putting out the flames. AFD had to travel about 3.5 miles across the interstate arriving at the fire in six minutes and 13 seconds. But although the Bernalillo County Fire Department has a station a mile away, its crews were not dispatched. BCFD wasn't called because the house is in AFD's jurisdiction. Both departments say this happens every day, and it's been happening for years. "That's throughout the county," BCFD Chief John Garcia told KRQE News 13.  "You can go to the South Valley, the North Valley and even the east side of town where there's jurisdictional lines above a fire station Read more

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