{"id":110758,"date":"2015-07-27T20:06:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T02:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-fire-chief-injured-in-rear-end-crash\/"},"modified":"2015-07-27T20:06:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T02:06:31","slug":"cortez-fire-chief-injured-in-rear-end-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-fire-chief-injured-in-rear-end-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez fire chief injured in rear-end crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=73cf8bdc-ed4f-4ad5-972e-ab85380e996c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=73cf8bdc-ed4f-4ad5-972e-ab85380e996c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=73cf8bdc-ed4f-4ad5-972e-ab85380e996c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=73cf8bdc-ed4f-4ad5-972e-ab85380e996c&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=\"1036\" alt=\"Members of the Cortez Fire Protection district work on Chief Jeff Vandevoorde\u2019s vehicle. The man identified as the driver of the Dodge Ram pickup truck was interviewed at left.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Members of the Cortez Fire Protection district work on Chief Jeff Vandevoorde\u2019s vehicle. The man identified as the driver of the Dodge Ram pickup truck was interviewed at left.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Tobie Baker\/The Cortez Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said a man driving a Dodge Ram was talking on a cell phone when he slammed into the back of the fire vehicle, which was stopped at a red light. Officials declined to comment, citing an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The impact pushed the fire vehicle into the intersection, blocking the eastbound lanes on Main Street. Westbound traffic was limited to one lane.<\/p>\n<p>Vandevoorde\u2019s fire crew responded to the accident, and extricated him from the vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Cortez Fire Protection district work on Chief Jeff Vandevoorde\u2019s vehicle. The man identified as the driver of the Dodge Ram pickup truck was interviewed at left.Tobie Baker\/The Cortez Journal Eyewitnesses said a man driving a Dodge Ram was talking on a cell phone when he slammed into the back of the fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-110758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110758","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=110758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110758"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=110758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}