(TNS) — Klarissa Peña recalls a time, before she sat on the Albuquerque City Council, when the district she lives in and now represents couldn’t get emergency services to respond.
“I remember a volunteer had cut his foot at the Alamosa Neighborhood Association. He was bleeding pretty profusely,” Peña said. “We called, and they said, ‘Well, this is city, this is county.’ I’m just like, ‘Well, this dude is bleeding out, somebody needs to come.'”
More than a decade later, her district has a new emergency response center at 98th and Amole Mesa SW, the first of its kind, housing the three divisions of Albuquerque emergency responders: Albuquerque Community Safety, the Albuquerque Police Department and Albuquerque Fire Rescue…