{"id":53128,"date":"2020-06-23T19:10:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T01:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/east-canyon-fire-is-98-contained-authorities-say\/"},"modified":"2020-06-24T01:10:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T01:10:38","slug":"east-canyon-fire-is-98-contained-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/east-canyon-fire-is-98-contained-authorities-say\/","title":{"rendered":"East Canyon Fire is 98% contained, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1d49cba1-500f-408c-ac68-6f1782e86fe4&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"The Sand Creek Fire burns in a remote area 21 miles northwest of Pagosa Springs. It was last estimated at 65 acres.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Sand Creek Fire burns in a remote area 21 miles northwest of Pagosa Springs. It was last estimated at 65 acres.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of San Juan National Forest<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Firefighters are close to containing the lightning-caused East Canyon Fire that started last week southeast of Mancos.<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday evening, the fire was 98% contained, up from 78% Monday. The Type 2 team will transition down to a Type 3 incident command team Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a pretty good number to transition to,\u201d said Deana Harms, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Land Management. \u201cI drove by it today, and it looked pretty quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fire scorched 2,905 acres 2 miles southeast of Mancos. A plume of smoke was visible from Durango on June 14, the day it started.<\/p>\n<p>As the wind picks up, firefighters will monitor ash to ensure it doesn\u2019t fall into a green area of forest and ignite a fire, Harms said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters also gained ground on the Sand Creek Fire, which started June 15 about 21 miles northwest of Pagosa Springs in the Piedra Special Management Area.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was last estimated at 65 acres and was not expected to experience rapid growth.<\/p>\n<p>It was not threatening any structures or communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe remote terrain and high density of dangerous dead trees (snags) in and around this fire creates a difficult situation for firefighters,\u201d according to a news release issued Tuesday afternoon by the San Juan National Forest. \u201cThis has resulted in firefighters taking a careful look at areas farther from the fire, where they can safely engage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smoke from the fire was visible to the north from U.S. Highway 160 between Pagosa Springs and Bayfield.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:ehayes@durangoherald.com\">ehayes@durangoherald.com<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>picks up, firefighters monitor ash scatter for new starts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-53128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53128","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=53128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53128"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=53128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}