{"id":64557,"date":"2019-11-01T19:28:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T19:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/school-district-practices-emergency-response\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:01:45","slug":"school-district-practices-emergency-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/school-district-practices-emergency-response\/","title":{"rendered":"School district practices emergency response"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f1dc5fe2-4e47-4016-869c-5e8a2c0e36d9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" alt=\"Officials and board members from Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 meet with first responders Oct. 24 to practice responding to an emergency car crash and hazmat situation.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Officials and board members from Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 meet with first responders Oct. 24 to practice responding to an emergency car crash and hazmat situation.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo courtesy of Re-1<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Cortez schools and first responders last month practiced emergency procedures and communication in case of a disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, they practiced responding to a scenario of a collision between a pickup and propane truck at the intersection of U.S. Highway 491 and Main Street, said Jamie Haukeness, director of safety and facilities for the Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving the chance for all of us to go through this drill in \u2018slow motion\u2019 and evaluate the event in a step-by-step process was incredibly helpful to all of us,\u201d Haukeness said.<\/p>\n<p>The practice was held Oct. 24 in the high school library. It came with a detailed timetable that included the initial report of the crash, evacuations and establishment of a reunification site.<\/p>\n<p>Participants in the drill included the Cortez Fire Department, Cortez Police Department, Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Department, Colorado State Patrol Hazmat Division, Cortez Parks and Recreation, Cortez Dispatch Center, Southwest Health Systems, SHS Emergency Medical Services, County Commissioner Jim Candelaria, the county\u2019s Emergency Management System and Health Department, and the school district\u2019s board and administrative officials.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\">ealvero @the-journal.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>responders, Re-1 undertake disaster simulation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5738,5833,5794,5737,5736,5810,5735,5741],"tags":[21,701,155,28,216,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-64557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cortez","category-disasters-and-crashes","category-education","category-headlines","category-local-news","category-montezuma-cortez-school-district-re-1","category-news","category-newsletter","tag-cortez","tag-disasters-and-crashes","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-cortez-school-district-re-1","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64557","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=64557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91881,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64557\/revisions\/91881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64557"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=64557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}