{"id":52795,"date":"2020-07-10T23:10:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T05:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/small-fire-burning-in-bear-creek-area-northeast-of-dolores\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:01:16","slug":"small-fire-burning-in-bear-creek-area-northeast-of-dolores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/small-fire-burning-in-bear-creek-area-northeast-of-dolores\/","title":{"rendered":"Small fire burning in Bear Creek area northeast of Dolores"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A small fire is burning between Dolores and Rico, just south of Colorado Highway 145 on San Juan National Forest property.<\/p>\n

Dubbed the Bear Creek 2 Fire, the blaze was first reported about 8 a.m. Friday and grew to 1\u00bd to 2 acres by 4 p.m., according to Dolores District Ranger Derek Padilla. Ground and air personnel from the U.S. Forest Service and from out of state have responded.<\/p>\n

The fire is in the Bear Creek area, and no structures have been threatened. As of Friday afternoon, it was believed the fire started from natural causes, Padilla said.<\/p>\n

The fire is burning through open meadow and aspen trees, which are not conducive to fire, although the current drought has allowed it to migrate, Padilla said.<\/p>\n

While there\u2019s no extreme fire behavior, the steep slope of the terrain has presented some challenges to the fire crews on scene as they try to set a line around it, he said.<\/p>\n

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1-2 acre fire is in San Juan National Forest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[44,13,28,29,549,84],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-52795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-united-states-forest-service","tag-wildfire"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52795","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=52795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88153,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52795\/revisions\/88153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52795"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=52795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}