{"id":29064,"date":"2024-02-24T05:17:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T12:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/car-bursts-into-flames-after-hitting-tree-on-la-plata-highway\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:48:14","slug":"car-bursts-into-flames-after-hitting-tree-on-la-plata-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/car-bursts-into-flames-after-hitting-tree-on-la-plata-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Car bursts into flames after hitting tree on La Plata Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3c56058c-86a6-5b21-ad54-a4ea5150ef91&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1180\" height=\"940\" alt=\"A vehicle reportedly struck a tree and burst into flames on La Plata Highway near the intersection of County Road 1191. (Courtesy of Amanda Burns)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A vehicle reportedly struck a tree and burst into flames on La Plata Highway near the intersection of County Road 1191. (Courtesy of Amanda Burns)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A car reportedly struck a tree and burst into flames on La Plata Highway Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>A witness called dispatch shortly after 6 p.m., and San Juan County Fire and Rescue  responded to the crash, which happened near the intersection of County Road 1191.<\/p>\n<p>The highway was closed for about 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was crazy,\u201d said Amanda Burns, who lives in the area. \u201cEverything was already on fire when I came across it, and I heard small pops going on after the car exploded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>San Juan County spokesperson Devin Neeley said witnesses pulled the driver out of the burning car. He also said the blaze also sparked a small brush fire, which was quickly extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>Neeley said the investigation was turned over to New Mexico State Police.<\/p>\n<p>The Tri-City Record will have more information when it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passersby pull person from the wreckage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[350,28,2206,443],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-29064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-fire","tag-headlines","tag-san-juan-county-fire-and-rescue","tag-san-juan-county-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29064","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=29064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80623,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29064\/revisions\/80623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29064"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=29064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}