{"id":103184,"date":"2017-10-13T14:21:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T20:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-fire-district-holds-monthly-meeting\/"},"modified":"2017-10-13T14:21:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T20:21:38","slug":"cortez-fire-district-holds-monthly-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-fire-district-holds-monthly-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez fire district holds monthly meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Cortez Fire Protection District board last week received updates on construction of the new fire station and a fire that gutted a house northwest of Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>Vergil Gray, building division manager, told board members during their monthly meeting on Oct. 11 that construction at North and Washington streets is back on track.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are gonna get her built now, and we are excited about it,\u201d Gray said. \u201cI think we are going to be doing the road crossing next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gray also gave updates on the specifics of the project\u2019s piping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe finally got past the hydroponic improvement stage, and we are placing slabs,\u201d Gray said. \u201cWe should have all of the slabs placed by the end of next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fire Chief Jeff Vandevoorde updated the board on the <a href=\"https:\/\/the-journal.com\/articles\/68402\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">house fire at County Road 24.4<\/a> on Monday, Oct. 2. The homeowners had reportedly been in Las Vegas that morning. Cortez firefighters were called to the scene off North Broadway at 11:57 p.m. on Oct. 2 after a neighbor reported seeing the flames.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen firefighters and four trucks from the Cortez, Lewis-Arriola and Dolores fire departments responded to the blaze. Vandevoorde said it took about an hour and a half to extinguish the flames, and some areas were still smoldering the following morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had that fire out at 24.4, and those guys did a great job on that,\u201d Vandevoorde said. \u201cThat didn\u2019t get called in until somebody was driving by down below. It was probably burning for a while, and it had burned through the crawl space already. They did a good job knocking everything down and getting in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but Vandevoorde commented on the plausible causes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey (the homeowners) also set off five or six bug bombs before they left, so we are taking a look at that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vandevoorde also reported on two Cortez recruits from the <a href=\"https:\/\/the-journal.com\/articles\/68164-montezuma-county-fire-academy-graduates-inaugural-class-in-dolores\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul H. Fischer memorial class<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGabriel Rogers was offered a full-time position, and he has accepted it, and he will be starting November 14,\u201d Vandecoorde said. \u201cChris Ludington is a solid guy. He works a lot of part-time hours for us. Two really good recruits out of that class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vandevoorde also reported on an E-One firetruck that is down for repairs.<\/p>\n<p>The truck was taken to Albuquerque for about $30,000 in repairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truck is 20-some years old, and it just needs a lot of work, so we are going to do half out of this budget and half out of next budget,\u201d Vandevoorde said. \u201cPete\u2019s Equipment is an E-One dealer and had sold us a brush truck. \u2026 They are taking care of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chief Vandevoorde also reported the Cortez Fire Protection District ran 191 calls in September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are up to 1,595 calls for the year,\u201d Vandevoorde said. \u201cThat is about 150 over last year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>updated on station construction, local house fire, new firefighters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-103184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/103184","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=103184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103184"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=103184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}