{"id":28965,"date":"2024-02-29T21:36:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T04:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/a-brush-fire-erupts-near-san-juan-regional-medical-center\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:45:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:45:43","slug":"a-brush-fire-erupts-near-san-juan-regional-medical-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/a-brush-fire-erupts-near-san-juan-regional-medical-center\/","title":{"rendered":"A brush fire erupts near San Juan Regional Medical Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fe3191dd-dce0-5d14-a8e4-95cc7e7243be&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Farmington Fire Department crews responded to a brush fire Thursday across South Lake Street west of San Juan Regional Medical Center. (David Edward Albright\/Tri-City Record)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Farmington Fire Department crews responded to a brush fire Thursday across South Lake Street west of San Juan Regional Medical Center. (David Edward Albright\/Tri-City Record)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Farmington Fire Department responded to a brush fire in the arroyo west of South Lake Street west of San Juan Regional Medical Center about 12:58 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Fire Chief Robert Sterrett stated that \u201cthis is kind of a problem area. This fall, we\u2019ve had a number of small fires in here, mostly related to homeless camps.\u201d He said the \u201cheavily wooded area makes it easy to conceal yourself, and the downside is that it\u2019s drying up and we haven\u2019t had a lot of moisture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If people light a warming fire at night and nobody reports it, a light breeze can easily spread the fire, Sterrett said, adding that they\u2019ve had a number of small fires in the area since last fall.<\/p>\n<p>About 1:30 p.m., a ladder truck below the area and an engine and crew with water hoses worked to contain and extinguish the fire about 50 yards below Lake Street. Sterrett said another engine and brush truck were expected to arrive soon.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=6d3b616c-1c86-5f6e-a07c-a1c3a222a4e4&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"A brush fire Thursday west of San Juan Regional Medical Center was expected to take a few hours to fully extinguish, said Farmington Fire Chief Robert Sterrett. (David Edward Albright\/Tri-City Record)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A brush fire Thursday west of San Juan Regional Medical Center was expected to take a few hours to fully extinguish, said Farmington Fire Chief Robert Sterrett. (David Edward Albright\/Tri-City Record)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>He said it would be an extended operation and take several hours to fully extinguish the fire. \u201cThere will be smoke in the air for three or four hours,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ten firefighters were on the scene at about 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>expected to last for a few hours<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[799,3262,28,611],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-28965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-farmington","tag-farmington-fire-department","tag-headlines","tag-homelessness"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28965","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=28965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80594,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28965\/revisions\/80594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28965"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=28965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}