{"id":21939,"date":"2025-06-07T00:24:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T06:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-childs-alert-prevents-home-fire-disaster-at-neighboring-house\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:10:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:10:37","slug":"cortez-childs-alert-prevents-home-fire-disaster-at-neighboring-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-childs-alert-prevents-home-fire-disaster-at-neighboring-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez child\u2019s alert prevents home fire disaster at neighboring house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=192b808a-c004-553f-8e12-90d597360ae3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A quick-thinking elementary-age child might have prevented their neighbor\u2019s home on North Ash Street from burning down at the end of May. After the fire was reported at 11:46 a.m., firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>According to a police report, the fire was ignited by smoldering embers from a fire pit, and damage was noted on the back deck and fire pit. The Cortez Police Department confirmed that the child\u2019s alert had prevented further damage to the home.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Karla Ross responded to the scene and commended the child for thinking and acting quickly, and presented gifts of badge stickers and a stuffed animal.<\/p>\n<p>The child reportedly noticed the fire at the neighboring property and alerted an aunt, who called 911. The fire\u2019s origin was traced to a smoldering fire pit left overnight. The home is being rented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>noticed the fire and alerted their aunt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,21,28,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-21939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-community","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21939","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=21939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77515,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21939\/revisions\/77515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21939"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=21939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}