{"id":101238,"date":"2018-02-16T17:16:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T00:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-fire-protection-district-swears-in-new-lieutenants\/"},"modified":"2018-02-16T17:16:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T00:16:01","slug":"cortez-fire-protection-district-swears-in-new-lieutenants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-fire-protection-district-swears-in-new-lieutenants\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez Fire Protection District swears in new lieutenants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2c616c90-2e56-4c60-83f6-dba50c4a2801&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2c616c90-2e56-4c60-83f6-dba50c4a2801&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2c616c90-2e56-4c60-83f6-dba50c4a2801&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2c616c90-2e56-4c60-83f6-dba50c4a2801&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Assistant Fire Chief Shawn Bittle, right, swore in Charles Borden and Patrick Spencer in as lieutenants at Wednesday night\u2019s board meeting.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Assistant Fire Chief Shawn Bittle, right, swore in Charles Borden and Patrick Spencer in as lieutenants at Wednesday night\u2019s board meeting.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Emily Rice\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Cortez Fire Protection District welcomed two new lieutenants to its ranks on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Fire Chief Shawn Bittle swore in Charles Borden and Patrick Spencer as lieutenants at the district board\u2019s regular meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The board also heard an update from Kyle Blackmer, of Weeminuche Construction Co., about the construction of the new firehouse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have made a lot of progress in the last month. We have a building out there now. We are progressing with the metal framing in the living quarters and mechanical plumbing,\u201d Blackmer said.<\/p>\n<p>He also told the board he hoped to receive waterproofing materials in the next week so the crew can begin painting inside the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Staton Jetter gave the board the monthly log report.<\/p>\n<p>The Cortez Fire Protection District responded to 198 calls in January \u2013 160 medical calls, six automotive accidents, six hazmat calls and 26 possible false calls.<\/p>\n<p>Bittle asked the board to help him with some time off. According to Bittle, he stated that he had been on call for 32 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not think it is healthy for me to be on call from now until a new fire chief is selected, and I think I would be doing a disservice to the board members and to my firefighters,\u201d Bittle said.<\/p>\n<p>Bittle presented multiple proposals, including the request for help, to the board that were tabled until March\u2019s meeting to give board members the chance to read over the materials.<\/p>\n<p>The board also moved to table a teleconference call with Pacheco Ross Architects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borden, Spencer join ranks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-101238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101238"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=101238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}