{"id":45271,"date":"2021-08-11T01:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T07:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/willow-fire-is-50-contained-growth-halted\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:24:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:24:37","slug":"willow-fire-is-50-contained-growth-halted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/willow-fire-is-50-contained-growth-halted\/","title":{"rendered":"Willow Fire is 50% contained; growth halted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=112be364-7c0b-53b6-baf8-6ce5f21fca1a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" alt=\"Firefighters are mopping up the Willow Fire on the San Juan National Forest. The fire was 50% contained as of Tuesday and was at 26 acres. (Courtesy San Juan National Forest)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Firefighters are mopping up the Willow Fire on the San Juan National Forest. The fire was 50% contained as of Tuesday and was at 26 acres. (Courtesy San Juan National Forest)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Willow Fire is now 50% contained, but there is still a lot of heat in the interior, reports the Dolores County Office of Emergency Management.<\/p>\n<p>The wildfire has burned about 26 acres in a steep canyon west of the Salter Y, and north of the Lower Dolores River Canyon. It was started by lightning.<\/p>\n<p>There are 25 fire personnel on the fire, down from 68 over the weekend. A hand line has been created around the perimeter and two water tenders are on the scene. Mop up operations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The Pike Hotshot crew working the fire has been redeployed to another wildfire.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, a tree on the fire\u2019s perimeter caught fire and threatened to spread the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was quickly knocked down, heat and wind are still very much a concern,\u201d states a Dolores County Emergency Management Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>The fire burned ponderosa and mixed conifer on private property and San Juan National Forest land within Montezuma and Dolores Counties.<\/p>\n<p>Four single-engine air tankers and a helicopter were called in as an initial attack Friday. Pleasant View and Dove Creek Fire Departments, and state and federal firefighters, responded on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>National Forest public information officer Rebecca Robbins said the only property damage from the fire was minor damage to fence posts. There are no injuries.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently no Forest Service road closures or evacuations in place and Ferris Canyon is open for campers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect the fire to be fully contained in the next 2 to 3 days,\u201d Robbins stated in an email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>interior and windy conditions still a concern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[837,28,60,29,199],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-45271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores-county","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter","tag-san-juan-national-forest"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45271","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=45271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86427,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45271\/revisions\/86427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45271"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=45271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}