{"id":46374,"date":"2021-06-08T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fire-crews-respond-to-house-fire-north-of-cortez\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:31:20","slug":"fire-crews-respond-to-house-fire-north-of-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fire-crews-respond-to-house-fire-north-of-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire crews respond to house fire north of Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a4eda2bf-c062-53a6-a37d-64bedd13c033&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"675\" alt=\"A fire that started in a trash can spread to a home on Road K.3 Tuesday afternoon. The fire damaged a fence and a portion of an attached garage. It was quickly put out, and there were no injuries. The melted trash can is in the foreground. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A fire that started in a trash can spread to a home on Road K.3 Tuesday afternoon. The fire damaged a fence and a portion of an attached garage. It was quickly put out, and there were no injuries. The melted trash can is in the foreground. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Cortez Fire Protection District crews responded to a house on fire on Road K.3 northwest of Cortez Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>There were no injuries, and the fire was quickly put out. A corner of the garage had some fire damage.<\/p>\n<p>The fire started in a trash bin next to the home then spread to a fence and attached garage, said Charlie Borden, Battalion Chief for the Cortez Fire Protection District.<\/p>\n<p>When the resident saw the fire, he pulled the trash can away and doused the fire with a garden hose, Borden said.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews continued to douse the burned area and secured the scene. The trash can melted from the fire. The side of the garage was charred, and a portion of the fence destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>The origin of the fire in the trash can was not known, Borden said. Fire officials initially paged Lewis-Arriola Fire for mutual aid, but it was not required.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest Health System ambulance, Montezuma County Sheriff Department and a utility crew also responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=eceaece5-023c-51b7-b155-96dd3bb68961&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"442\" alt=\"Firefighters from the Cortez Fire Protection District responded to a house fire on Road K.3 Tuesday afternoon. There were no injuries, and the fire was quickly put out.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Firefighters from the Cortez Fire Protection District responded to a house fire on Road K.3 Tuesday afternoon. There were no injuries, and the fire was quickly put out.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resident douses fire with garden hose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,350,28,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-46374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-fire","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46374","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=46374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86855,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46374\/revisions\/86855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46374"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=46374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}