{"id":39655,"date":"2022-07-04T21:45:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T03:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fire-destroys-home-east-of-cortez-two-pets-die\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:50:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:50:52","slug":"fire-destroys-home-east-of-cortez-two-pets-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fire-destroys-home-east-of-cortez-two-pets-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire destroys home east of Cortez; two pets die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=4eafb566-b8fd-5ae4-89c3-eb78d80278f7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"515\" alt=\"A home on Road 29.1 was destroyed by fire Sunday morning. The family escaped unharmed, but two pets died. (Courtesy Cortez Fire Protection District)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A home on Road 29.1 was destroyed by fire Sunday morning. The family escaped unharmed, but two pets died. (Courtesy Cortez Fire Protection District)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews responded to a house fire Sunday morning on Road 29.1 east of Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>The two residents escaped unharmed, but two dogs died in the blaze, said Battalion Chief Charlie Borden of the Cortez Fire Protection District.<\/p>\n<p>The manufactured home was a total loss, he said, adding that the fire moved very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin said deputies were the first to arrive on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>They evacuated nearby trailers and attempted to enter the burning home to rescue the pets, but the fire and smoke were too intense.<\/p>\n<p>Borden said the cause of the fire is under investigation. No other structure was damaged. The names of the residents were not available.<\/p>\n<p>The Dolores and Mancos fire departments and the Southwest Health System ambulance also responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A victim assistance specialist worked with the family on their needs, Nowlin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents escape unharmed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-39655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39655","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=39655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84398,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39655\/revisions\/84398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39655"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=39655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}