Albuquerque Media Monitoring
News clips from Wednesday, August 7 include stories about:

* Arson Investigators Looking at Overnight Fire in Fraternity House
* Emergency Room Waits are Getting Longer
* Lobos Beginning Fall Football Practice
* UNM Psychiatrist Talks About Students Returning to School

2 KASA 9:00 PM

ARSON INVESTIGATORS ARE LOOKING INTO AN OVERNIGHT FIRE AT A FRATERNITY HOUSE NEAR THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO CAMPUS. THE BLAZE BROKE OUT IN THE BASEMENT OF THE THE FORMER "SIGMA CHI" HOUSE AROUND THREE THIS MORNING. 13 STUDENTS WERE INSIDE BUT ALL MADE IT OUT SAFELY. NO WORD YET ON HOW THE FIRE STARTED.

LOBO RODNEY FERGUSON UNDERSTANDS THE VALUE OF ALL OF HIS MINUTES ON THE FIELD AFTER MISSING THE NEW MEXICO BOWL FOR ACADEMIC REASONS. THE BRUISING ALL MOUNTAIN WESTPERFORMER IS READY FOR A BREAKOUT YEAR ON THE FIELD AND IN THE CLASSROOM.

4 KOB 5:00 AM

UNM FRAT HOUSE THIS MORNING AFTER A FIRE BROKE OUT OVERNIGHT. KAYLA ANDERSON IS LIVE AT THE SIGMA CHI HOUSE WITH MORE: FORTUNATELY EVERBODY WHO WAS INSIDE THE FRAT HOUSE HERE AT 1855 SIGMA CHI ROAD IS JUST FINE THIS MORNING. BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE'S STILL A LOT OF FLASHING LIGHTS OUT HERE. SINCE CLASSES AT UNM DON'T START UNTIL MIDAUGUST... ONLY ABOUT 13 PEOPLE WERE INSIDE THE HOUSE EARLY THIS MORNING. WE'RE TOLD ABOUT TWO HOURS AGO THOSE HOUSE MEMBERS SMELLED SMOKE. THEY WENT THROUGH THE BUILDING TO FIND OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON AND FOUND THE SMOKE COMING UP FROM THE BASEMENT. 13 ENGINES RESPONDED... WITH ABOUT 30 CREW MEMBERS. THEY WERE ABLE TO GET THE FIRE UNDER CONTROL WITHIN ABOUT 20 MINUTES. ALL 13 PEOPLE WHO WERE INSIDE WERE INVACUATED AND SUBSEQUENTLY DISPLACED. MEANWHILE... I'M SURE THEY'RE WORRIED ABOUT THEIR HOUSE. WE'VE LEARNED THE FIRE DAMAGE IS ACTUALLY CONTAINED TO THAT STORAGE ROOM... BUT THERE IS SMOKE DAMAGE THROUGHOUT THE BUILDING. MEANWHILE, THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION... AND ARSON INVESTIGATORS ARE OUT HERE. ALBUQUERQUE FIREFIGHTERS ARE STILL ON THE SCENE OF A FORMER UNM FRAT HOUSE THIS MORNING AFTER A FIRE BREAKS OUT OVERNIGHT. KAYLA ANDERSON IS LIVE AT THE SIGMA CHI HOUSE WITH MORE: FORTUNATELY EVERBODY WHO WAS INSIDE THE COED TELOS CAMPUS HOUSE... HERE AT 1855 SIGMA CHI ROAD ... IS DOING JUST FINE THIS MORNING. THEY SAY THEY'RE PART OF A CHRISTIAN FRATERNITY HERE... AND THEY'RE RELYING ON THEIR FAITH TO GET THEM THROUGH THIS. 13 HOUSE MEMBERS WERE INSIDE THE BUILDING THIS MORNING. I'M TOLD THEY ACTUALLY WERE AWAKEN BY A FIRE ALARM. THEN TWO GUYS RAN THROUGH THE HOUSE WITH FIRE EXTINGUISHERS... AND FOUND SMOKE COMING UP FROM THE BASEMENT. 13 ENGINES RESPONDED... WITH ABOUT 30 CREW MEMBERS. THEY WERE ABLE TO GET THE FIRE UNDER CONTROL WITHIN ABOUT 20 MINUTES. ALL 13 PEOPLE WHO WERE INSIDE WERE EVACUATED AND SUBSEQUENTLY DISPLACED ... AND SO FAR THEY SAY THEY'RE NOT SURE WHEN THEY'LL BE ABLE TO GO BACK INSIDE. MEANWHILE... WE'VE LEARNED THE FIRE DAMAGE IS ACTUALLY CONTAINED TO THAT STORAGE ROOM... BUT THERE IS SMOKE DAMAGE THROUGHOUT THE BUILDING. AND THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION... BUT AS IS STANDARD PROCEDURE, ARSON INVESTIGATORS ARE ON SCENE.

4 KOB 7:00 AM

AFD IS INVESTIGATING AN EARLY MORNING FIRE THAT DISPLACED MORE THAN A DOZEN HOUSE MEMBERS AT A FORMER UNM FRAT HOUSE. THE THIRTEEN PEOPLE INSIDE THE TELOS CAMPUS HOUSE WOKE TO A FIRE ALARM AROUND 3 THIS MORNING. CREWS GOT THE FIRE UNDER CONTROL WITHIN TWENTY MINUTES. NO ONE WAS INJURED AND FIRE DAMAGE IS LIMITED TO THE BASEMENT IN THE OLD SIGMA CHI HOUSE.

4 KOB 4:00 PM

STUDENTS AT A UNM HOUSE NEED A NEW PLACE TO LIVE FOLLOWING AN EARLY MORNING FIRE. FLAMES BROKE OUT AT THE TELOS HOUSE AROUND THREE THIS MORNING. 13 STUDENTS WHO ALREADY MOVED IN AHEAD OF THE SCHOOL YEAR GOT OUT SAFE. NOW THE CHRISTIAN FRATERNITY IS LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO PUT THEM AND EVERYONE ELSE SCHEDULED TO MOVE IN. "CAUSE SOME KIDS ARE GOING GO SOMEPLACE, OR ARE EVEN OFFERING THEIR HOME TO OTHER KIDS. WE DO HAVE A SECOND HOUSE WE'RE TRYING TO GET IT READY FOR A WEEK OR TWO WEEKS OR HOWEVER LONG WE'RE GOING TO NEED THAT FOR." FIREFIGHTERS BELIEVE THE FIRE STARTED IN A STORAGE ROOM BUT AREN'T SURE WHAT SPARKED IT.

IF YOU NEED TO GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM EXPECT TO WAIT A WHILE ESPECIALLY IN ALBUQUERQUE. A NEW CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL STUDY FINDS THAT THE AVERAGE TIME A PATIENT HAS TO WAIT IN THE US IS NOW NEARLY AN HOUR. THE REASON? OVER THE LAST DECADE THE CDC SAYS THE NUMBER OF EMERGENCY ROOMS DROPPED AND THE NUMBER OF MEDICAL VISITS WENT UP. WE CHECKED WITH UNM HOSPITAL AND THEIR NUMBERS ARE ACTUALLY WORSE. THE MOST RECENT DATA SHOWS BETWEEN APRIL AND JUNE OF THIS YEAR ... THE AVERAGE WAIT FOR PATIENTS AT U NMH WAS MORE THAN 2 AND A HALF HOURS.

4 KOB 6:00 PM

FALL PRACTICE.. TONIGHT WE'LL LOOK AT THE LOBOS BIGGEST WEAPON.. TWOTIME FIRST TEAM ALL CONFERENCE RUNNING BACK RODNEY FERGUSON RETURNS.. ACCORDING TO THE TEAM FERGUSON TURNED IN ONE OF THE BEST SPRINGS OF HIS CAREER ON THE FIELD AND IN THE CLASSROOM.. HERE'S LAWRENCE GILLIGAN WITH MORE ON THE LOBO WHO WILL DO MOST OF THE HEAVY LIFTING ON OFFENSE.. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED RANKED 119 DIVISION ONE COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAMS.. THE MOUNTAIN WEST LANDED TWO IN THE TOP 25.. THE LOBOS ARE RANKED 91ST.. NEW MEXICO STATE IS NOT FAR BEHIND.. THE AGGIES WILL HOLD THEIR FIRST OFFICIAL WORKOUT TOMORROW DOWN IN LAS CRUCES.. THE AGGIES WERE PICKED TO FINISH NEAR THE BOTTOM OF THE WAC THIS SEASON .. THEY RETURN THEIR TWO STARTS.. QUARTERBACK CHASE HOLBROOK AND RECIEVER CHRIS WILLIAMS SO THEIR HEAD COACH IS OPTIMISTIC..

JUST BEFORE THE START OF SCHOOL SOME UNM STUDENTS HAVE TO FIND A NEW PLACE TO LIVE AFTER AN EARLY MORNING FIRE. FLAMES BROKE OUT AT THE TELOS HOUSE AROUND THREE THIS MORNING. 13 STUDENTS WHO ALREADY MOVED IN AHEAD OF THE SCHOOL YEAR MADE IT OUT SAFELY. NOW THE CHRISTIAN FRATERNITY IS LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO PUT THEM AND THE DOZEN OR SO OTHERS THAT WERE SUPPOSED TO BE MOVING IN SOON. "CAUSE SOME KIDS ARE GOING GO SOMEPLACE, OR ARE EVEN OFFERING THEIR HOME TO OTHER KIDS. WE DO HAVE A SECOND HOUSE WE'RE TRYING TO GET IT READY FOR A WEEK OR TWO WEEKS OR HOWEVER LONG WE'RE GOING TO NEED THAT FOR." FIREFIGHTERS BELIEVE THE FIRE STARTED IN A STORAGE ROOM BUT AREN'T SURE WHAT SPARKED IT.

4 KOB 10:00 PM

A FEDERAL REPORT SHOWS PATIENTS ARE SPENDING MORE TIME WAITING IN EMERGENCY ROOMS. AND AFTER CALLING AROUND TODAY WE LEARNED UNM HOSPITAL HAS EVEN LONGER WAIT TIMES. ACROSS THE COUNTRY THE AVERAGE WAIT TIME IS NEARLY AN HOUR. BUT WE FOUND U NM HOSPITAL PATIENTS WAIT AN AVERAGE OF MORE THAN TWOANDA HALF HOURS. THAT'S BASED ON STATISTICS FROM THE PAST FEW MONTHS. PRESBYTERIAN TOLD US ITS SEEN AN INCREASE IN WAIT TIMES AS WELL. RESEARCHERS SAY IT'S BECAUSE MORE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THE ER.

4 KOB 10:00 PM

TODAY THE LOBOS WERE IN SHOULDER PADS FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS WEEK.. RUNNING BACK RODNEY FERGUSON IS NOW A SENIOR.. HE MISSED THE NEW MEXICO BOWL BECAUSE OF GRADES.. HE SAYS THAT WON'T BE AN ISSUE ANYMORE..

7 KOAT 5:00 AM

A FIRE ON THE UNM CAMPUS. FLAMES SHOT THROUGH AN OLD FRATERNITY HOUSE OVERNIGHT. ACTION SEVEN NEWS REPORTER DOMINIC GARCIA JOINS US LIVE FROM THE SCENE WITH THE LATEST. AFD CREWS QUICKLY GOT THE FLAMES UNDER CONTROL ON WHAT'S NOW A PRIVATE HOME WHERE MANY STUDENTS RENT ROOMS ON SIGMA CHI ROAD. IT ENDED UP TAKING THEM ABOUT 20 MINUTES TO PUT THE FLAMES OUT.. THE FIRE STARTED AROUND THREE O'CLOCK THIS MORNING IN THE BASEMENT OF THE HOUSE AND IT QUICKLY SPREAD TO OTHER ROOMS. YOU COULD SEE PLUMES OF SMOKE POURING FROM THE BUILDING AS FIREFIGHTERS BATTLED TO PUT THE FIRE OUT... EVERYONE INSIDE THE HOUSE GOT OUT SAFELY... AND CREWS AREN'T REPORTING ANY INJURIES. FIRE INVESTIGATORS ARE STILL TRYING TO DETERMINE EXACTLY WHAT SPARKED THE BLAZE.

7 KOAT 7:00 AM

FIREFIGHTERS ARE STILL WORKING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT SPARKED A BLAZE AT AN OLD FRATERNITY HOUSE ON THE UNM CAMPUS OVERNIGHT. THE FLAMES SPARKED IN A BASEMENT STORAGE ROOM OF THE SIGMA CHI HOUSE... WHICH IS NOW USED AS A BOARDING HOUSE FOR CHRISTIAN STUDENTS. CREWS MANAGED TO CONTAIN THEM QUICKLY ... THOUGH SMOKE POURED FROM THE BUILDING FOR NEARLY AN HOUR. ALL OF THE STUDENTS WHO WERE STAYING AT THE HOUSE GOT OUT SAFELY. OWNERS ARE STILL ASSESSING THE DAMAGE.

13 KRQE 5:00 AM

FLAMES AND SMOKE CAME BILLOWING OUT OF A FORMER FRATERNITY HOUSE ON THE UNM CAMPUS THIS MORNING... NEWS 13'S DAVID ROMERO IS LIVE AT THE SCENE WITH DETAILS. ABOUT A DOZEN FIRE CREWS WERE ON SCENE TRYING TO CONTAIN FLAMES FROM THE FORMER SIGMA CHI FRATERNITY HOUSE... IT WAS SHORTLY AFTER THREE THIS MORNING WHEN ALBUQUERQUE FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED ON SCENE AND BEGAN TO EXTINGUISH THE FLAMES IN THE BASEMENT OF THE TELOS CAMPUS HOUSE. THERE WERE 13 STUDENTS INSIDE AT THE TIME THE FIRE BROKE OUT... ALL OF THEM WERE ABLE TO GET OUT SAFELY. AS SERIOUS AS THE FIRE WAS, AFD WAS ABLE TO PROMPTLY KEEP THE FLAMES AND DAMAGE CONTAINED. THE FIRE DAMAGE IS LIMITED TO THE STORAGE ROOM BUT SMOKE DAMAGE IS THROUGHOUT THE STRUCTURE AS PART OF STANDARD PROCEDURE, THE ARSON TEAM FROM AFD WILL BE ON SCENE TO INVESTIGATE. RIGHT NOW, THERE IS NO PRELIMINARY INDICATION AS TO HOW THE FIRE STARTED.

THESE ARE TOUGH ECONOMIC TIMES. AND, SOMETIMES WHEN PEOPLE GET DESEPARTE, THEY THINK ABOUT SUICIDE. IN SOME CASES, THEY ACTUALLY DO IT. AND, NOW, AS WE HEAD INTO THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR, SOME STUDENTS MAY BE DREADING HEADING BACK TO THE CLASSROOM... ALL TOO OFTEN, WE HEAR OF PEOPLE TAKING THEIR OWN LIVES, IT'S PARTICULARLY DISTURBING WHEN IT'S A YOUNG PERSON... DOCTOR STEVEN ADELSHIEM IS WITH THE UNM DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY... HE JOINS US THIS MORNING.

13 KRQE 7:00 AM

FLAMES AND SMOKE CAME BILLOWING OUT OF A FORMER FRATERNITY HOUSE ON THE UNM CAMPUS THIS MORNING... ABOUT A DOZEN FIRE CREWS WERE ON SCENE TRYING TO CONTAIN FLAMES FROM THE FORMER SIGMA CHI FRATERNITY HOUSE... SHORTLY AFTER THREE A.M ALBUQUERQUE FIREFIGHTERS BEGAN EXTINGUISHING FLAMES IN THE BASEMENT OF THE TELOS CAMPUS HOUSE. THERE WERE 13 STUDENTS INSIDE AT THE TIME THE FIRE BROKE OUT... ALL OF THEM WERE ABLE TO GET OUT SAFELY. AS SERIOUS AS THE FIRE WAS, AFD WAS ABLE TO PROMPTLY KEEP THE FLAMES AND DAMAGE CONTAINED. THE ARSON TEAM WAS CALLED IN TO INVESTIGATE. RIGHT NOW, THERE IS NO PRELIMINARY INDICATION AS TO HOW THE FIRE STARTED.

13 KRQE 4:00 PM

ARSON INVESTIGATORS ARE LOOKING INTO AN OVERNIGHT FIRE AT THE FORMER "SIGMA CHI" FRATERNITY HOUSE NEAR THE UNM CAMPUS. THE BLAZE BROKE OUT IN THE BASEMENT OF THE HOUSE AROUND THREE THIS MORNING. THE 13 STUDENTS INSIDE ALL MADE IT OUT SAFELY. NO WORD ON HOW THE FIRE STARTED.

13 KRQE 5:30 PM

A 4 YEAR OLD LOS LUNAS BOY WHO NEARLY DIED FROM ECOLI IS HELPING RAISE MONEY FOR THE HOSPITAL THAT HELPED SAVE HIM. KEVIN MENDOZA WAS ADMITTED TO UNM'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IN JULY 2006. HIS KIDNEY'S FAILED, AND HIS LUNGS COLLAPSED ... BUT AFTER SEVERAL MONTHS OF TREATMENT HE WAS FINALLY NURSED BACK TO HEALTH. TOMORROW KEVIN WILL BE SERVING BLIZZARDS AT THE DAIRY QUEEN ON LOUISIANA BOULEVARD. ALL NEW MEXICO DAIRY QUEENS WILL BE DONATING ALL PROCEEDS MADE FROM BLIZZARD SALES TOMORROW TO THE UNM CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL.

PRACTICE STARTS TOMORROW. TODAY IT'S MEDIA DAY FOR NEW MEXICO STATE FOOTBALL. WITH STAR RECEIVER CHRIS WILLIAMS BACK AND A NEW DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR IN JOE LEE DUNN OUR ADAM SHADOFF SAYS THE AGGIES HAVE HIGH HOPES FOR 2008. THE AGGIES WILL PLAY THE LOBOS THE 27TH OF NEXT MONTH. WHEN THEY DO THEY WILL PROBABLY GET A HEAVY DOSE OF ALL MOUNTAIN WEST RUNNINGBACK RODNEY FERGUSON. FERGUSON REALLY UNDERSTANDS THE VALUE OF ALL OF HIS MINUTES ON THE FIELD AFTER MISSING THE NEW MEXICO BOWL FOR ACADEMIC REASONS.

13 KRQE 10:00 PM

THE MOUNTAIN PACIFIC SPORTS FEDERATION PRESEASON SOCCER POLL SAYS THE LOBOS WILL FINISH FIRST IN MEN'S SOCCER THIS SEASON. THE LOBOS HAVE WON THE LAST FOUR MPSF TITLES AND HAVE GONE TO THE NCAA TOURNAMENT SIX OF THE LAST SEVEN YEARS. AIR FORCE IS PICKED TO FINISH LAST. MPSF PRESEASON MEN'S SOCCER POLL 1. UNM 2. DENVER T3. SAN JOSE STATE T3. UNLV 5. SACRAMENTO STATE 6. AIR FORCE

41 KLUZ 5:00 PM

A POCOS DIAS DEL COMIENZO DE CLASES...DECENAS DE ESTUDIANTES DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE NUEVO MEXICO SE QUEDAN SIN UN TECHO DONDE VIVIRUN INCENDIO EN UNA CONOCIDA FRATERNIDAD CERCA A LA CALLE YALE, PROVOCO QUE LA VIVIENDA QUEDARA PRACTICAMENTE INABITABLE....EL INCENDIO COMENZO APROXIMADAMENTE A LAS 3 DE LA MADRUGADA EN EL SOTANO DE LA PROPIEDAD Y SEGUN EL DEPARTAMENTO DE BOMBEROS, LOS 13 ESTUDIANTES QUE SE ENCONTRABAN DENTRO DE LA FRETERNIDAD PUDIERON SALIR INTACTOS....EXPERTOS INVESTIGAN LAS CAUSAS DE ESTE SINIESTRO.