{"id":52832,"date":"2020-07-08T02:16:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T08:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fire-on-highway-145-causes-damage-north-of-cortez\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:01:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:01:49","slug":"fire-on-highway-145-causes-damage-north-of-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fire-on-highway-145-causes-damage-north-of-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire on Highway 145 causes damage north of Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:108f0d80-a712-49ae-8a9a-a6e8952f872a --><\/p>\n<p>A property fire on Colorado Highway 145 near County Road N caused damage and sent one man to the hospital, said Cortez Fire Protection District Chief Jay Balfour.<\/p>\n<p>The fire badly damaged two sheds, and sparks caused a fast-moving grass fire, he said. Flying sparks also ignited the tops of a nearby cottonwood tree.<\/p>\n<p>The man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s injuries were not life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>Cortez Fire Protection District and Dolores Fire Department crews responded to the scene and the fire was controlled, Balfour said.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest Health System ambulance also responded, along with the Montezuma County Sheriff.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is under investigation, Balfour said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>transported to hospital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,350,13,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-52832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-fire","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52832","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=52832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88156,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52832\/revisions\/88156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52832"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=52832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}