{"id":21425,"date":"2025-07-15T21:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/firefighters-working-111-acre-fire-in-remote-part-of-southwest-la-plata-county\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:06:04","slug":"firefighters-working-111-acre-fire-in-remote-part-of-southwest-la-plata-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/firefighters-working-111-acre-fire-in-remote-part-of-southwest-la-plata-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters working 111-acre fire in remote part of southwest La Plata County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fd021e7b-b835-53ca-8f8f-000e7e698a89&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"945\" height=\"677\" alt=\"The Ute 63 Fire southwest of Marvel had scorched 111 acres as of Tuesday afternoon.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Ute 63 Fire southwest of Marvel had scorched 111 acres as of Tuesday afternoon.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Firefighters on Tuesday were working a 111-acre wildfire on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in southwest La Plata County.<\/p>\n<p>The Ute 63 Fire was discovered at 5:51 p.m. Sunday near Morgan Canyon, a remote area southwest of Marvel. The fire increased by more than 70 acres from Monday evening to Tuesday afternoon, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/data-nifc.opendata.arcgis.com\/datasets\/405814902c9e411cb4384c49d694e82b_0\/explore?location=37.026468%2C-108.251520%2C13.92\" id=\"link-0f6ca379d1cd49743671761f1252f578\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interagency Fire Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire was listed as \u201cnatural,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The Southern Ute Indian Tribe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southernute-nsn.gov\/2025\/07\/01\/for-immediate-release-southern-ute-reservation-initiates-stage-1-fire-restrictions\/\" id=\"link-c8a6c6746f674667028575b4b8cffd52\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">initiated Stage 1 fire restrictions<\/a> on July 1 in response to high temperatures, dry fuel conditions and several wildfire startups across the region.<\/p>\n<p>The Bureau of Indian Affairs did not respond to multiple requests for additional details, including information about containment.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-17a35c79c3f77f0bad7dfd6aa09d6723\"><a href=\"mailto:epond@durangoherald.com\">epond@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>reportedly started by natural causes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,84],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-21425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-wildfire"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21425","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=21425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77305,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21425\/revisions\/77305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21425"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=21425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}