{"id":102370,"date":"2017-12-19T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-fire-chief-jeff-vandevoorde-announces-retirement\/"},"modified":"2017-12-19T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T00:24:00","slug":"cortez-fire-chief-jeff-vandevoorde-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-fire-chief-jeff-vandevoorde-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez Fire Chief Jeff Vandevoorde announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=52b13eaf-d5a0-427b-82c7-b21099c7591a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=52b13eaf-d5a0-427b-82c7-b21099c7591a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=52b13eaf-d5a0-427b-82c7-b21099c7591a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=52b13eaf-d5a0-427b-82c7-b21099c7591a&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=\"620\" height=\"544\" alt=\"Fire Chief Jeff Vandevoorde has served 8\u00bd years in Cortez and 40 years in the fire service overall.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Fire Chief Jeff Vandevoorde has served 8\u00bd years in Cortez and 40 years in the fire service overall.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Chief Jeff Vandevoorde requested approval for his resignation from the Cortez Fire Protection District board on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>He is retiring after 8\u00bd years serving Cortez and 40 years in the fire service overall.<\/p>\n<p>Vandevoorde said he is proud of his accomplishments as chief, but looks forward to spending time with his family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was able to get a new engine, a new brush truck, a new station,\u201d Vandevoorde said. \u201cIt has been a really good experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The board will decide how to find the chief\u2019s replacement at next month\u2019s board meeting.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the board passed its 2018 budget.<\/p>\n<p>The Cortez Fire Protection District holds its monthly meetings on the second Wednesday of every month at 6 p.m. at 23 N. Washington St. station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8\u00bd years in city and 40 years overall in firefighting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102371,"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-102370","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\/102370","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=102370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102370"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=102370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}