{"id":50928,"date":"2020-10-14T16:29:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T22:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/truck-rolls-becomes-fully-engulfed-in-flames\/"},"modified":"2020-10-14T22:29:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T22:29:41","slug":"truck-rolls-becomes-fully-engulfed-in-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/truck-rolls-becomes-fully-engulfed-in-flames\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck rolls, becomes fully engulfed in flames"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0073b4e5-2581-4114-bb8c-b938482eb093&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2667\" alt=\"A truck swerved to avoid hitting a deer, rolled over and became fully engulfed in flames Wednesday southeast of Aztec, authorities say.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A truck swerved to avoid hitting a deer, rolled over and became fully engulfed in flames Wednesday southeast of Aztec, authorities say.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of San Juan County (N.M.) Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A truck became fully engulfed in flames Wednesday after rolling on its side on New Mexico Highway 173, southeast of Aztec, according to the San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Al Jamison said a man driving a Ford F-250 was headed to work Wednesday morning when he swerved to miss a deer, causing the truck to roll on its side.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was uninjured and able to self-extricate from the vehicle, Jamison said.<\/p>\n<p>But as a tow truck was loading the F-250, which was leaking a significant amount of fuel, it caught fire and became fully engulfed in flames. Authorities are unsure what sparked the fire, Jamison said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never seen that in 18 years,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was new for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Highway 173 near mile marker 5 was closed for about an hour, Jamison said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>swerved to avoid a deer southeast of Aztec<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1240,28,29,443],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-50928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-aztec","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-san-juan-county-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50928","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=50928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50928"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=50928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}