{"id":22544,"date":"2025-04-23T20:16:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T02:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-red-flag-warning-and-fire-weather-watch-issued-for-montezuma-county-greater-southwest-region\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:14:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:14:58","slug":"update-red-flag-warning-and-fire-weather-watch-issued-for-montezuma-county-greater-southwest-regi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-red-flag-warning-and-fire-weather-watch-issued-for-montezuma-county-greater-southwest-regi\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Red flag warning and fire weather watch issued for Montezuma County, greater Southwest region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=473a8be0-d6bf-461d-8b67-5ab402ef92eb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1333\" height=\"889\" alt=\"A fire from the past in Lost Canyon. (Journal file photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A fire from the past in Lost Canyon. (Journal file photo)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>In light of windy conditions, low humidity and dry fuels, the National Weather Service out of Grand Junction issued a fire weather watch alert the afternoon of Wednesday, April 23.<\/p>\n<p>At 2:04 a.m. on Thursday, April 24, it issued a red flag warning, too, that is in effect until Friday, April 25 at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>In a red flag warning, burning is prohibited.<\/p>\n<p>The fire weather watch includes Southwest Colorado and a substantial area north of Telluride, in the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e92ac3fc-107e-5c0c-b571-f3945e24194e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"689\" height=\"890\" alt=\"There\u2019s a fire weather watch in effect until Friday, April 25 in the highlighted areas.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">There\u2019s a fire weather watch in effect until Friday, April 25 in the highlighted areas.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The alert went out at 1:47 p.m., and the watch is in effect until Friday, April 25 at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConditions will be right for rapid fire growth,\u201d said Cortez Fire Battalion Chief Rick Spencer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s in effect until Friday, April 25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[350,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-22544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-fire","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22544","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=22544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77756,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22544\/revisions\/77756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22544"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}