{"id":22623,"date":"2025-04-18T16:22:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T22:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fire-at-gustavos-restaurant-in-cortez-remains-under-investigation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:15:29","slug":"fire-at-gustavos-restaurant-in-cortez-remains-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fire-at-gustavos-restaurant-in-cortez-remains-under-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at Gustavo\u2019s restaurant in Cortez remains under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=db3d5433-7ed8-5fe5-8f59-3628098091b6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1233\" alt=\"The fire that ignited at Gustavo\u2019s Mexican Restaurant and Bar is under investigation, but no one was injured. (Cameryn Cass\/The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The fire that ignited at Gustavo\u2019s Mexican Restaurant and Bar is under investigation, but no one was injured. (Cameryn Cass\/The Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The fire that ignited in Gustavo\u2019s Mexican Restaurant and Bar, 125 E. Main St., on Thursday afternoon is under investigation, according to the Cortez Fire Protection District on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were dispatched to Gustavo\u2019s at 2:35 p.m., and travel was opened on Main Street again around 4:54 p.m. The scene was cleared at 5:16 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Cortez Fire Protection District Battalion Chief Cory Elliott told <em id=\"emphasis-6b303fcda93e06cd37db1991ef5b8311\">The<\/em> <em id=\"emphasis-6cf88b08e7799982ec171b397c8516be\">Journal<\/em> there were no injuries and that the fire started at the back of the restaurant, causing some damage to the bar and restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt did some damage in the bar occupancy, and there\u2019s a small amount of smoke damage in the restaurant itself, which is next door,\u201d Elliott said. \u201cThere was no damage into Brand Central, the big business to the west.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cortez firefighters also received aid from neighboring fire protection districts in Lewis-Arriola, Dolores and Mancos.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-7b010a9d10680eac914366a95060c971\">This story will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>injured in fire that shut down traffic on Main Street<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,350,28,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-22623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-fire","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\/22623","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=22623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77787,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22623\/revisions\/77787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22623"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}