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Woman climbs up, refuses to get off fire truck

She bit and scratched officers as they strapped her onto a stretcher; she was taken to the hospital for a mental health evaluation

KOAT.com

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Albuquerque’s Freedom 4th celebration drew 70,000 people, but while their eyes were on the sky, one woman climbed onto a city fire engine and then refused to come down.

“Who said? Who said? Who said I can’t be up here?” she asked.

Security, fire and police crews tried to get her down. “Because I want to be on top of a fire truck,” she told an officer when asked why she wouldn’t come down. The Albuquerque Police Department’s Crisis Intervention Team was eventually called in.

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