Fire guts Sun-News building

Kristy Harris and her 10-year-old son Jody, an aspiring firefighter, were headed to the public library just after 1 p.m. Sunday when a fire truck, alive with lights and sirens, pulled in front of them and tore off in downtown.

[stopTAGGING ourWALLS]

holy moly....a million gallons.

A historic building burned.

A beautiful day to be outdoors.

No one reported injured.

We saw black smoke high in the air visible from University Ave. area just after 12:15pm after church.

Film at eleven.

[Ted]

Breaking news: We're on FIRE!!!!

[Reality Check]

Circulation down, paper losing money...hmmm...

[NLT]

Thank God nobody was hurt....seriously.

However, it would be so very wonderful if this trash newspaper was replaced with a good newspaper that is not biased or out to ridicule/bash certain groups of people. My perception of Sun-News employees is that they are lowly paid, resentful people who walk around with a chip on their shoulder so it almost seems like they have nothing better to do than cause drama. Cut the drama and gives us real news. I am tired of having to go to kob.com to read about what is happening in the state.

I laughed at your supposedly top news article list that you published a week or so ago. It does not mean that people enjoyed those articles. You know why the salary article came up with so many hits? Because all of the employees (a lot) were the ones who were concerned about what you published about them. An article with a lot of hits does not mean it was good reading. I guess some of those articles were like a bad car wreck. You know it is not worth looking at, but you have gotta take a "look see" to see what the old LC Scum-News have come up with now. Good luck to you all. All I can say is karma.....

[Dan]

Sorry to hear it. Good luck, guys.

[Steve M]

Well, that's our newspaper. Someone else had to tell them that the building they were in was on fire.

[Sun-News Critic]

... Poetic Justice !!!!

[Len]

LC Today wrote:

If the Sun-News has plans to replace the building with a new one, perhaps they can replace the newspaper with a new, balanced, unbiased newspaper as well.

A time and place for everything, used to be something people lived by.

[Len]

Whatever wrote:

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Yeah, maybe fox news can buy it so they too can be" fair and balanced."

Or maybe CNN they are ALWAYS unbiased.

[Your kidding right]

The building that burned is next door to sun news. The fire did them a favor. They would not have cleaned up that dilapidated building otherwise.

[Among You Soon]

Yea, we've all seen this before. as one poster said, business down, losing money.......OMG, a fire! Not very inventive..........

[blah blah]

Such a shame. Too bad it didn't spread to Del Valle Graphics.

[Yeah I Got an Opinion]

It sounds like the building NEXT to the Sun News main building caught on fire. Your story does not cleary state if there was any damage in the main building.

[Reader]

GOOD!! Pay the Devil Her Due..

[Whatever]

Len wrote:

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Or maybe CNN they are ALWAYS unbiased.

Either way someone will Butch. Fox is blatent though and claims balanced.

[Wecc]

Whatever wrote:

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Yeah, maybe fox news can buy it so they too can be" fair and balanced."

Oh just STFU will ya.

[Huh]

A million gallons of water? In one hour? That comes out to over 16 thousand gallons a minute. Most fire engines have a capacity of about 2000 to 2500 gallons per minute. To flow a million gallons in one hour would have required every single fire pump in Las Cruces flowing at full capacity! I don't even think our water supply system could handle that kind of demand. Don't these reporters think about what they write?

[Huh]

Your kidding right wrote:

The building that burned is next door to sun news. The fire did them a favor. They would not have cleaned up that dilapidated building otherwise.

The Sun News owned that building. It was used to store old records.

[Gus]

Huh wrote:

A million gallons of water? In one hour? That comes out to over 16 thousand gallons a minute. Most fire engines have a capacity of about 2000 to 2500 gallons per minute. To flow a million gallons in one hour would have required every single fire pump in Las Cruces flowing at full capacity! I don't even think our water supply system could handle that kind of demand. Don't these reporters think about what they write?

A Million Gallons...No WAY!! I was there and it looked more a a GaZillion gallons to me.

[Amy R]

We also heard it was a million gallons, so to whoever thinks that's too much water to put out a fire, you obviously didn't see this one!