{"id":101652,"date":"2018-01-26T18:09:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T01:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/employees-handle-car-fire-at-giant-gas-station-in-cortez\/"},"modified":"2018-01-26T18:09:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T01:09:05","slug":"employees-handle-car-fire-at-giant-gas-station-in-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/employees-handle-car-fire-at-giant-gas-station-in-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Employees handle car fire at Giant gas station in Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:3312e1d0-6e22-46b7-9684-f7b7ba02a033 --><\/p>\n<p>Employees saved the day at a Giant gas station in Cortez Friday when a car on fire pulled up to the pumps.<\/p>\n<p>Heather McDonald happened to be following the burning Audi sedan into the 2021 E. Main Street station, and quickly informed employees.<\/p>\n<p>Station attendant Jackie Hood jumped into action, grabbing a fire extinguisher and calling 911 while she ran outside to douse the flames.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, attendant Matilda Begay hit the emergency shutoff for the gas pumps. No one was injured, and the engine fire was extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald said when the driver stopped, he opened the hood and \u201cflames shot out everywhere, then he closed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cortez Fire Protection District and Cortez Police quickly responded to the fire. Firefighters used a pry bar and bolt cutters to open the hood which had become stuck closed as white smoke poured out the sides. Once open, they further doused the engine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt makes for an interesting shift,\u201d Begay said.<\/p>\n<p>It was not known what caused the fire. The driver was passing through Cortez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attendants spring into action after bystander alerts them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21,1605,350,51],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-101652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-employee","tag-fire","tag-police"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101652","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=101652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101652"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=101652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}