{"id":57465,"date":"2013-09-11T21:14:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T03:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-fire-takes-home-title\/"},"modified":"2013-09-12T03:14:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T03:14:56","slug":"dolores-fire-takes-home-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-fire-takes-home-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores Fire takes home title"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ad579f5d-df59-4b49-b2a2-b057675dabe0&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1309\" alt=\"The Dolores Firefighters brought home trophies from the Tri-State Firemen's Association. Competing at the event were Bill McCoy, Lance Wells, Drew D'Agnese, Mike Zion, Jerry Whited and Jeremy Gonzales. Matt Lindsay and Rick Potter are not pictured.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Dolores Firefighters brought home trophies from the Tri-State Firemen's Association. Competing at the event were Bill McCoy, Lance Wells, Drew D'Agnese, Mike Zion, Jerry Whited and Jeremy Gonzales. Matt Lindsay and Rick Potter are not pictured.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/Cortez Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seventeen teams from Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico competed in the events structured around various firefighting tactics. Eight members of the Dolores Fire District competed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur comedy skit came in first, and that gave us the overall sweepstakes and the most points,\u201d said Dolores Fire Chief Mike Zion. \u201cWe had a good-natured routine poking fun at other teams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is not all fun and games during the event, Zion said. Training and classes are conducted in the mornings, and competitions are held in the afternoons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a lot of timed events rolling out hoses, hooking up to hydrants, and then shooting down targets,\u201d Zion said.<\/p>\n<p>The Tri-State Firemen\u2019s Association was formed in 1938 by a group of department chiefs. The vision was to hold an event to help districts learn new techniques, share ideas, and compete against each other in events.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 Tri State Fireman\u2019s Convention will be held in Cortez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolores Firefighters brought home trophies from the Tri-State Firemen&#8217;s Association. Competing at the event were Bill McCoy, Lance Wells, Drew D&#8217;Agnese, Mike Zion, Jerry Whited and Jeremy Gonzales. Matt Lindsay and Rick Potter are not pictured.Sam Green\/Cortez Journal Seventeen teams from Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico competed in the events structured around various firefighting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[188,13,167],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-57465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores-star","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-local-news-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57465","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=57465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57465"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=57465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}