{"id":66824,"date":"2019-08-06T18:05:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T00:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bridge-damaged-in-416-fire-to-be-removed\/"},"modified":"2019-08-07T00:05:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T00:05:11","slug":"bridge-damaged-in-416-fire-to-be-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bridge-damaged-in-416-fire-to-be-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridge damaged in 416 Fire to be removed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=984a048c-f7ec-4f31-9c04-8d1fa3ac3e74&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"A bridge damaged in the 416 Fire was removed Tuesday.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A bridge damaged in the 416 Fire was removed Tuesday.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Eddy Lewis<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A bridge that was damaged in last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 416 Fire was scheduled to be removed Tuesday by helicopter, the U.S. Forest Service announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The South Fork Trail Bridge was damaged when the fire burned the east abutment, causing the bridge to fall into Hermosa Creek, creating a safety and flood hazard, the Forest Service said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The trail bridge previously accessed the South Fork Trail, though the trail was closed several years ago because of landslides and sloughing that made the trail impassable.<\/p>\n<p>The Forest Service planned to use a contracted helicopter and local fire crews to remove the bridge, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter was to take the structure to a closed roadbed where it would be fully dismantled and removed at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>The 416 Fire broke out June 1, 2018, and burned an estimated 54,000 acres, mostly on San Juan National Forest lands in the Hermosa Creek drainage.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Service planned to use helicopter to lift structure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2838,884,549],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-66824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-416-fire","tag-hermosa","tag-united-states-forest-service"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66824","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=66824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66824"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=66824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}