{"id":33078,"date":"2023-07-05T18:50:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T00:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-hazmat-evacuations-lifted-for-homes-in-bloomfield\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:06:04","slug":"update-hazmat-evacuations-lifted-for-homes-in-bloomfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-hazmat-evacuations-lifted-for-homes-in-bloomfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Hazmat evacuations lifted for homes in Bloomfield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ae861241-b595-5751-84e4-ff44a80f607f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"908\" height=\"681\" alt=\"An accident at North First Street and Oak Street in Bloomfield led to a hazardous materials spill and evacuations in the area. (Courtesy of Bloomfield Police Department)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">An accident at North First Street and Oak Street in Bloomfield led to a hazardous materials spill and evacuations in the area. (Courtesy of Bloomfield Police Department)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Evacuations for homes within a half-mile of a hazardous materials spill were lifted around 1:30, but remained in place for all businesses at Oak Street and North First Street in Bloomfield.<\/p>\n<p>A motor vehicle crash led to the spilling of 300 gallons of herbicide in the roadway leading to a response from Farmington Fire Department\u2019s Hazardous Materials team, according to San Juan County Spokesman Devin Neeley.<\/p>\n<p>San Juan County Fire and Rescue, Bloomfield Fire Department, New Mexico State Police and Bloomfield Police Department also responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnvirotech is doing the physical clean up,\u201d Neeley said. \u201cThey are still cleaning up and will be for the next few hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>North First Street will remain closed between Broadway and Blanco Boulevard until the entire spill is cleaned up, Neeley said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic accident leads to hazardous materials spill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1222,418,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-33078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bloomfield","tag-hazardous-materials","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33078","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=33078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82041,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33078\/revisions\/82041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33078"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=33078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}