SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico (KTSM) — The City of Sunland Park and the Camino Real Regional Utility Authority (CRRUA) are being sued by a family that alleges a faulty fire hydrant played a role in the destruction of their mobile home during a structure fire earlier this year.

The residential structure fire occurred back on April 24 at the 200 block of Calle Diaz, in the Anapra subdivision. The mobile home and a neighbor’s shed were a total loss, according to the Sunland Park Fire Department.

4 displaced after mobile home catches fire in Sunland Park

“Coming back and seeing this, it's heartbreaking because this was my home for 10 years and, well, there's nothing left. I see sadness, when one day it was happiness,” Laissa Mendoza, the owner of the now destroyed mobile home, said.

Mendoza and

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