{"id":38954,"date":"2022-08-11T17:32:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T23:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-based-firefighter-dies-battling-fire-in-oregon\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T23:32:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T23:32:15","slug":"colorado-based-firefighter-dies-battling-fire-in-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-based-firefighter-dies-battling-fire-in-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado-based firefighter dies battling fire in Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=142fc10d-668e-592e-82cb-f3d08878d8f6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"829\" height=\"406\" alt=\"A helicopter carries the body of fallen firefighter Collin Hagan. (Handout)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A helicopter carries the body of fallen firefighter Collin Hagan. (Handout)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A Colorado-based wildland firefighter died Wednesday afternoon when he was struck by a tree while battling a fire in Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Collin Hagan, of Toivola, Michigan, was assigned to the Craig Interagency Hotshot Crew based out of Craig. He was fighting the Big Swamp fire in southwest Oregon at the time of his death.<\/p>\n<p>Hotshot firefighters are among the nation\u2019s most elite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a sad day in public safety,\u201d Sheriff John Hanlin, of  Douglas County, Oregon, said in a written statement. \u201cOn behalf of the men and women of the Douglas County Sheriff\u2019s Office, I extend my heartfelt sympathies to Firefighter Hagan\u2019s family, friends, co-workers and all who knew this brave young man.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>was assigned to the Craig Interagency Hotshot Crew <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,84],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-38954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-wildfire"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38954","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=38954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38954"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=38954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}