{"id":16686,"date":"2025-09-03T21:38:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/stoner-mesa-fire-slows-crews-shift-focus-to-cleanup\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:59:57","slug":"stoner-mesa-fire-slows-crews-shift-focus-to-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/stoner-mesa-fire-slows-crews-shift-focus-to-cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoner Mesa Fire slows; crews shift focus to cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=87be116a-cf56-59a5-ae3e-49d6ed8b74e7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1504\" height=\"1182\" alt=\"Fire hose wrangled along the Stoner Mesa Fire. (Courtesy photo\/San Juan Team 8)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Fire hose wrangled along the Stoner Mesa Fire. (Courtesy photo\/San Juan Team 8)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Stoner Mesa Fire slows; crews shift focus to cleanup<\/p>\n<p>Although firefighters continue to patrol the fire\u2019s edge and extinguish hot spots, the Stoner Mesa Fire has largely slowed, according to a news release issued Wednesday morning from San Juan Team 8.<\/p>\n<p>Crews report the fire line is no longer necessary, structure protection equipment has been removed from homes, and a Dolores County preevacuation status was lifted as of Aug. 30.<\/p>\n<p>The fire has held steady at 10,249 acres since Aug. 26 and is now 47% contained.<\/p>\n<p>With a slight chance of rain showers today and more rain likely later this week, the fire is expected to continue to be suppressed.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials say today will be the final release of smoke maps, indicating smoke is no longer significant enough to report.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, fire crews remain active with ongoing tasks.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Elk Creek Wildfire Module firefighters extinguished hot spots near the fire\u2019s edge on the western side of Taylor Mesa. A 1,400-gallon Soft Track vehicle is assisting with water delivery.<\/p>\n<p>To get ahead of erosion from anticipated rainfall, a Type 2 team used hand tools to install water bars on a section of fire line near Stoner.<\/p>\n<p>Wood chippers and masticators are clearing brush and slash throughout the fire area.<\/p>\n<p>Crews are removing hoses, pumps and tanks from properties south of Fish Creek along County Road 38.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>held at 10,249 acres for more than a week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-16686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16686","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=16686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20336,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16686\/revisions\/20336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16686"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=16686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}