UPDATE (May 22, 2026) -- New Mexico Police said 25 people were exposed to fentanyl, methamphetamine and para-fluorofentanyl. During a press conference Friday in Albuquerque, NMSP said the substances were in powder form. Twenty of the 25 exposed went to the hospital. Two people are still there.
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New Mexico police identify substance that killed 3, hospitalized first responders
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Three dead and 18 first responders sickened by apparent fentanyl exposure in New Mexico
More than a dozen first responders had to be quarantined and assessed for possible exposure to an unidentified substance after being called to a suspected drug overdose.
New Mexico authorities say three people are dead and more than a dozen first responders were assessed for possible exposure to an unidentified substance after being called to a rural
State Police arrived at the residence in Mountainair around 11:00 a.m. to assist the Torrance County Sheriff's Office with a suspected overdose involving the unknown substance, the New Mexico State Police said in a statement.
Three people died and nearly 20 first responders were quarantined after exposure to an unidentified substance at a Mountainair, New Mexico home while responding to an overdose call, authorities said.
First responders were exposed to fentanyl and sickened after arriving at a rural New Mexico home Wednesday to investigate a possible overdose that left three people dead, officials said Friday.
UPDATE (May 22, 2026) -- New Mexico Police said 25 people were exposed to fentanyl, methamphetamine and para-fluorofentanyl. During a press conference Friday in Albuquerque, NMSP said the substances were in powder form. Twenty of the 25 exposed went to the hospital. Two people are still there.
Fentanyl exposure hospitalized more than a dozen first responders who arrived at a Mountainair, New Mexico, home where three people died in a suspected overdose.
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