{"id":52757,"date":"2020-07-13T15:40:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T21:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wildfire-breaks-out-near-placerville\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:01:12","slug":"wildfire-breaks-out-near-placerville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wildfire-breaks-out-near-placerville\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire breaks out near Placerville"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=582eab06-1600-4c45-b7fd-5ece98cb9f0f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"A fire northeast of Placerville has burned 60 acres and caused evacuations.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A fire northeast of Placerville has burned 60 acres and caused evacuations.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy San Miguel Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A wildfire reported Sunday northeast of Placerville triggered evacuations, according to the San Miguel Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Meadows Fire grew to 62 acres by Monday and was fought by 45 personnel from Telluride, Bureau of Land Management, Loghill Village, Norwood and Montrose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome structures are in danger, and ground efforts are underway to contain the fire,\u201d according to a statement from the Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, reported after noon Sunday, calmed by 7:45 p.m. Sunday. By Tuesday morning, it was 90% contained, and crews were mopping up hot spots, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>About 14 homes were evacuated through Monday near the Green Meadows Lane area of the Telluride Pines subdivision in Placerville. One home received superficial exterior damage.<\/p>\n<p>The wildfire 15 miles northwest of Telluride was fought from the ground and air, including with helicopters and four federal planes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meadows Fire reaches 62 acres<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,28,29,1561,97,195,84],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-52757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-san-miguel-county","tag-telluride","tag-u-s-bureau-of-land-management","tag-wildfire"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52757","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=52757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88143,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52757\/revisions\/88143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52757"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=52757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}