{"id":46274,"date":"2021-06-14T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/la-plata-county-man-dies-in-mobile-home-fire\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:30:23","slug":"la-plata-county-man-dies-in-mobile-home-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/la-plata-county-man-dies-in-mobile-home-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"La Plata County man dies in mobile home fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=128787ad-3319-5157-b8e5-3ba8545f7917&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Blotter lights\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Blotter lights<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A 39-year-old La Plata County man died from injuries suffered in a mobile home fire last week in the Grandview area southeast of Durango.<\/p>\n<p>The Durango Fire Protection District was dispatched Wednesday evening to a mobile home fire on County Road 232. About 10 minutes later, firefighters arrived to find the home \u201cengulfed in fire,\u201d said Karola Hanks, Durango fire marshal.<\/p>\n<p>Two residents were outside the building and said they believed one person was still in the home, Hanks said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters began to extinguish the fire with water then did a search and rescue of the building. They found one victim, who was taken to Mercy Regional Medical Center and later pronounced dead. A dog and a cat also died in the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Crews continued fire suppression until it was fully extinguished. No firefighters or law enforcement officers were injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot release any names in relation to this fire at this time because it is under investigation,\u201d Hanks said.<\/p>\n<p>La Plata County Coroner Jann Smith said the man\u2019s autopsy is scheduled for this week.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-one DFPD personnel, four engines and two medic units responded to the incident, Hanks said.<\/p>\n<p>Durango Fire has opened an investigation into the incident in conjunction with the La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very normal to do a fire investigation following a significant fire,\u201d Hanks said. \u201cThe purpose behind a fire investigation is to determine what the cause of the fire is and how we can educate the community to avoid having that kind of fire again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-246294b3aaab853622d7976884444b20\"><a href=\"mailto:smullane@durangoherald.com\">smullane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>blaze is under investigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[255,1480,350,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-46274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-death-and-dying","tag-durango-fire-protection-district","tag-fire","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46274","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=46274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86813,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46274\/revisions\/86813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46274"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=46274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}