{"id":69896,"date":"2017-08-09T18:41:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T00:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fire-crews-starting-operations-to-expand-small-fire-in-hd-mountains\/"},"modified":"2017-08-10T00:41:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T00:41:39","slug":"fire-crews-starting-operations-to-expand-small-fire-in-hd-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fire-crews-starting-operations-to-expand-small-fire-in-hd-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire crews starting operations to expand small fire in HD Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1a3030e6-3f6e-47b4-9832-5162cdc5177b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" alt=\"Pre-firing operations are starting Wednesday in the HD Mountains to expand the 842 Fire. The fire was caused by lightning and has burned about 13 acres. Expanding the fire will provide beneficial aspects for the mountain forest, according to the U.S. Forest Service.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Pre-firing operations are starting Wednesday in the HD Mountains to expand the 842 Fire. The fire was caused by lightning and has burned about 13 acres. Expanding the fire will provide beneficial aspects for the mountain forest, according to the U.S. Forest Service.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo courtesy U.S. Forest Service<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cFirefighters will be using drip torches, working to expand the perimeter of the fire within the predetermined containment lines,\u201d said Lance Martin, the incident commander. \u201cExact timing of the firing operations will depend upon weather conditions and fuel moistures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews onsite include a Type II initial attack crew from Wyoming and local crews from the U.S. Forest Service, Upper Pine Fire District and Durango Fire Department. After firing operations take place, smoke may settle overnight to the south along the Piedra River and Colorado Highway 151.<\/p>\n<p>The firing operations will be used to guide the fire\u2019s growth away from populated areas so it can play its natural role in the forest. Existing roads, trails and natural barriers will be used as containment lines instead of building fire breaks. Crews will do this to minimize any impacts to remote archaeological sites.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the Columbine District Office at 884-2512.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-firing operations are starting Wednesday in the HD Mountains to expand the 842 Fire. The fire was caused by lightning and has burned about 13 acres. Expanding the fire will provide beneficial aspects for the mountain forest, according to the U.S. Forest Service.Photo courtesy U.S. Forest Service \u201cFirefighters will be using drip torches, working to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,28,84],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-69896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-wildfire"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69896","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=69896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69896"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=69896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}