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The laundry room at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center features two industrial-size washers and dryers. Inmates staff the facility, which is expected to handle 1,065,000 pounds of laundry by the end of this year.
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Today's digital snapshot: police and fire protection.
Number of homes condemned by the city's nuisance abatement enforcers: 10.
The enforcers also boarded up 54 homes.
The Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center washed an average of 3,000 pounds of laundry a day.
By the end of the year, that will add up to 1,065,000 pounds of laundry, including blankets, sheets, towels, coveralls and personal items.
The jail population reached an all-time high Sept. 19 with 2,542 inmates.
The year's lowest population, 2,140, was on April 20.
A total of 31,208 individuals were booked into the facility through Dec. 17.
Some of them were booked more than once, bringing the total number of bookings into the jail to 38,536.
The Albuquerque Fire Department responded to 68,500 calls, including 55,000 calls for medical service and 2,500 for fires.
The average response time to fires was 5 minutes, 58 seconds.
That is two seconds under the minimum response time set by the National Fire Protection Association.
The Fire Department estimated fires in its territory threatened a total of $32.7 million worth of property.
Of that property, it's estimated $7.7 million worth was lost.
So far this year, the Office of the Medical Investigator found that 124 of the bodies brought to the office for an autopsy were killed violently. Fifty-five of those were from Bernalillo County.
