Albuquerque Fire Rescue (AFR) is the municipal

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serving

Albuquerque Albuquerque ( ; ), ; kee, Arawageeki; tow, Vakêêke; zun, Alo:ke:k'ya; apj, Gołgéeki'yé. abbreviated ABQ, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Its nicknames, The Duke City and Burque, both reference its founding i ...

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. It is the largest fire department in New Mexico with 22

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s and 729 paid firefighters as of 2020. In 2019, AFR ranked as the 25th-busiest fire department in the United States, fielding 105,526 calls for emergency services, and the department's Engine 5 was the nation's 12th-busiest

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with 5,532 runs. AFR provides both fire and

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, including two

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squads and one heavy technical rescue squad with

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, structural collapse, trench collapse, swift water, and elevator rescue capabilities. The Albuquerque Fire Department was originally established in 1900, replacing an earlier

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. It was renamed Albuquerque Fire Rescue in 2018 in order to acknowledge the wider scope of duties handled by the department. AFR has fielded a ambulance that is capable of initiating pre-hospital

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