VIDEO: Albuquerque firefighters hit the ground running Thursday morning at a boarded up house on Georgia Street near Trumbull. It wasn’t the first time the crew had been there.
“It’s a building that’s burned before, the crews know it pretty well, the back porch recently burned off of it,” Albuquerque Fire Rescue Lt. Jason Fejer said.
“All of a sudden the smoke smell started happening and started billowing within the hallways, building, in the classrooms, we started getting lots of reports so we called 911,” said Vanessa Sena, the dean of students of Emerson Elementary School nearby.
Emerson Elementary is just across the street from that now-destroyed house.
“The kids started coughing in the hallways, I had to pull the fire alarm and made sure everyone exited to the back of the school, in the field,” Sena said.