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VANDALISM AND FIRES AT TWO ALBUQUERQUE PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOCATIONS. THE CLINICS WERE HIT EARLY CHRISTMAS MORNING AT ROUGHLY THE SAME TIME. BUT AS VALERIE CASTRO REPORTS... THE CLINICS SAY EVEN ARSON WON'T SHUT THEM DOWN. A DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO BURN DOWN THIS MEDICAL OFFICE AS YOU CAN SEE HAD UNSUCCESSFUL RESULTS AND PLANNED PARENTHOOD OFFICIALS SAY THEY'RE GLAD IT WASN'T ANY WORSE. ' I was told that someone threw a molotov cocktail on the roof.' A FIRE QUICKLY BROKE OUT ON THE ROOF AT 701 SAN MATEO. AROUND THE SAME TIME, ALARMS WERE TRIGGERED AT ANOTHER CLINIC NEAR CENTRAL AND CARLISLE. 'we went over to our clinic on central and found three of the windows had been broken out.'A SUSPICIOUS COINCIDENCE... 'To have two incidents occur in such a short period of time it seems like they must be linked but i don't know what the police think.' AND A SCARY REMINDER OF A SIMILAR INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED EARLIER THIS MONTH AT THIS ABORTION CLINIC NEAR UNMH. 'I was really upset. i was really upset that they had such a catastrophic event that they were essentially burned out.' PLANNED PARENTHOOD SAYS TOUGHER SECURITY MEASURES WERE PUT IN TO PLACE AFTER THE LAST TIME THEY WERE ATTACKED. 'In 1999 this clinic on san mateo, the surgical facility was set on fire twice by a fella named ricky lee mcdonald who was incarcerated for those fires on a federal charge.' AND EVEN THOUGH THE THREATS ARE ALWAYS CLEAR...PLANNED PARENTHOOD HAS A MESSAGE FOR THE PUBLIC. 'We're open! we're open! we're safe, we're open, we didn't have a huge fire, i'm so happy. we're very fortunate that it wasn't worse.'NO ONE HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR THAT ARSON NEAR UNMH AND NO SUSPECTS HAVE BEEN IN NAMED IN THIS ATTEMPT BUT FIRE OFFICIALS DON'T BELIEVE THESE CASES ARE RELATED. THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SANTA FE HAS ISSUED A STATEMENT CONDEMNING THE ATTACKS ON THE PLANNED PARENTHOOD CLINICS. ANOTHER WINTER