{"id":54633,"date":"2013-05-02T22:34:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T04:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/gas-break-shuts-down-main\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T18:10:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:10:54","slug":"gas-break-shuts-down-main","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/gas-break-shuts-down-main\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas break shuts down Main"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ad058014-d913-41a0-828f-9023f172726f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1917\" height=\"1070\" alt=\"Main Street in Cortez was blocked off for about two hours Tuesday for a gas line leak in front of the Holiday Inn Express. The road was closed from the east Y to Sligo.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Main Street in Cortez was blocked off for about two hours Tuesday for a gas line leak in front of the Holiday Inn Express. The road was closed from the east Y to Sligo.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/Cortez  Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No injuries were reported, and the hotel was not evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>The break occurred shortly before 3 p.m. while a construction crew was removing concrete from the hotel\u2019s driveway, according to Lt. Andy Brock with the Cortez Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Atmos Energy was quickly called to the scene and pinched off the gas line to make repairs.<\/p>\n<p>Main Street was closed to traffic from 3 to 4:30 p.m. between Sligo Street and the intersection of highways 160 and 145. Vehicles were directed to detours by police and sheriff\u2019s deputies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt all went very smoothly,\u201d Brock said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Street in Cortez was blocked off for about two hours Tuesday for a gas line leak in front of the Holiday Inn Express. The road was closed from the east Y to Sligo.Sam Green\/Cortez Journal No injuries were reported, and the hotel was not evacuated. The break occurred shortly before 3 p.m. while a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-54633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54633","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=54633"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55504,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54633\/revisions\/55504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54633"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=54633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}