AFR responds to 3 residential fires in 12 hours

AFR responds to multiple fires in last 24 hours

Albuquerque firefighters have been busy the last 24 hours, responding to multiple fires across the city.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Albuquerque Fire Rescue crews have been busy, responding to three residential fires across the city in 12 hours.

Dispatch first sent firefighters to a home on Veronica, not far from Eubank and Spain, around 6 p.m. Thursday. Firefighters brought the fire under control within seven minutes. They say they contained the damage to a front bedroom and the attic.

No one was injured. No word on a cause.

Then, around 7 p.m. Thursday, crews responded to a fire at an apartment building near Eubank and Constitution. They say smoke was pouring out of a second-story apartment.

Video posted on social media showed smoke and flames coming from a window. There was even a crib inside. People at the scene told firefighters a baby might be inside. However, firefighters say they didn’t find anybody when they searched the apartment.

The fire left five people displaced. Apartment managers did set them up with a place to stay as the fire remains under investigation.

Around 1 a.m. Friday, a fire broke out in a two-story home near Silver and Wellesley in Nob Hill. The home was abandoned, however.

According to AFR, there were signs that a homeless person had broken in and was living there.

Crews quickly extinguished that fire.