{"id":53372,"date":"2020-06-14T00:33:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T06:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wildfire-closes-colorado-highway-145-northwest-of-telluride\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:04:15","slug":"wildfire-closes-colorado-highway-145-northwest-of-telluride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wildfire-closes-colorado-highway-145-northwest-of-telluride\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire closes Colorado Highway 145 northwest of Telluride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=711c0a57-4394-4f7c-8f5c-054a78ae6e69&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1040\" alt=\"A wildfire Saturday afternoon closed Colorado Highway 145 from Redvale to the Colorado 62 junction near Placerville, about 15 miles northwest of Telluride.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A wildfire Saturday afternoon closed Colorado Highway 145 from Redvale to the Colorado 62 junction near Placerville, about 15 miles northwest of Telluride.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">San Miguel Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A wildfire Saturday afternoon closed Colorado Highway 145 from Redvale to the Colorado 62 junction near Placerville, about 15 miles northwest of Telluride.<\/p>\n<p>About 50 staff from the Miguel County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Bureau of Land Management and Telluride, Placerville and Norwood fire departments responded to the fire, the Sheriff\u2019s Office said, and no structures were in danger of burning.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Office announced that was fire had been reopened about 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, estimated at 2.5 acres, burned near Caddis Flats, the Telluride Fire Protection District said. It was blamed on an unattended campfire on BLM land just west of Caddis Flats. It apparently spread as winds kicked up during a brief afternoon storm.<\/p>\n<p>A red flag warning remains in effect until 8 p.m. Sunday throughout Southwest Colorado. Because of gusty winds, low humidity and dry fuels, conditions are favorable for the rapid ignition, growth and spread of fires. Agricultural burning is strongly discouraged.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c9d3da86-91ac-4a99-a334-f4368cd8f5ba&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" alt=\"Colorado Highway 145 was closed about 3 p.m. Saturday from Redvale to the Colorado 62 junction near Placerville, about 15 miles northwest of Telluride.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Colorado Highway 145 was closed about 3 p.m. Saturday from Redvale to the Colorado 62 junction near Placerville, about 15 miles northwest of Telluride.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Colorado Department of Transportation<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\">This story will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wildfire closes Colorado Highway 145 northwest of TellurideBlaze blamed on winds, unattended campfire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,1561,195,84],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-53372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-san-miguel-county","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\/53372","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=53372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88272,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53372\/revisions\/88272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53372"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=53372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}