{"id":101872,"date":"2018-01-16T17:22:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T00:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-fire-protection-district-discusses-election-and-chiefs-position\/"},"modified":"2018-01-16T17:22:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T00:22:16","slug":"cortez-fire-protection-district-discusses-election-and-chiefs-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-fire-protection-district-discusses-election-and-chiefs-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez Fire Protection District discusses election and chief\u2019s position"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e2de5158-5220-46c8-8207-601e1c7d3369&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e2de5158-5220-46c8-8207-601e1c7d3369&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e2de5158-5220-46c8-8207-601e1c7d3369&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e2de5158-5220-46c8-8207-601e1c7d3369&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=\"Construction of the new firehouse is on track, according to Kyle Blackmer, of Weeminuche Construction Authority.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Construction of the new firehouse is on track, according to Kyle Blackmer, of Weeminuche Construction Authority.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Emily Rice\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The board has three open seats. Sherri Wright\u2019s and Buck Woodman\u2019s are up for re-election.<\/p>\n<p>The board appointed Wendy Mimiaga the election officer.<\/p>\n<p>Because of a family emergency, Jeff Vandevoorde\u2019s last day as fire chief was moved up to Friday, Jan. 12.<\/p>\n<p>The board voted on and approved the wording of the job description and job posting for a new fire chief.<\/p>\n<p>Other updates included a construction update on the new fire station from Kyle Blackmer.<\/p>\n<p>In an email to The Journal, he said that construction is nearly on track barring the holidays and a few weather setbacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStructural masonry is nearing completion,\u201d Blackmer wrote in the email. \u201cStructural steel installation is ongoing, and we hope to begin roofing and nonstructural metal framing next month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Board members also met for a pension board meeting before the regularly scheduled board meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction of the new firehouse is on track, according to Kyle Blackmer, of Weeminuche Construction Authority.Emily Rice\/The Journal The board has three open seats. Sherri Wright\u2019s and Buck Woodman\u2019s are up for re-election. The board appointed Wendy Mimiaga the election officer. Because of a family emergency, Jeff Vandevoorde\u2019s last day as fire chief was moved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[459,21,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-101872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-construction-and-property","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101872","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=101872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101872"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=101872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}