Overdose Deaths New Mexico

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 home for a suspected drug overdose. New Mexico State Police said four people were found unresponsive inside the Mountainair home east of Albuquerque. Three died and the fourth was being treated at a hospital. Officials at the University of New Mexico hospital say nearly two dozen patients were asessed and decontaminated after being exposed to the substance. Most of them were first responders who displayed no symptoms and later were discharged.

Authorities say fentanyl and methamphetamine were found at a home where first responders became sick after answering a call about suspected overdoses in a rural New Mexico county. Three people who were found inside the house died. A fourth person who was in the house and one of the first responders who became sick were still being treated at a hospital Friday. A doctor who saw the first responders exhibiting symptoms — including vomiting and dizziness — said their symptoms most closely resembled fentanyl exposure. However, the investigation into how the exposure happened and what caused it was ongoing.