Albuquerque opens new first of its kind emergency response center in growing part of city

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.'"

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