{"id":70802,"date":"2017-04-25T15:55:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T21:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-fire-district-breaks-ground-on-new-station\/"},"modified":"2017-04-25T21:55:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T21:55:13","slug":"cortez-fire-district-breaks-ground-on-new-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-fire-district-breaks-ground-on-new-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez Fire District breaks ground on new station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=144e8a07-2e49-49b8-a687-3525e6b88bcd&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1118\" alt=\"Construction for the new Cortez fire station is set to start Monday after a ground breaking ceremony Tuesday afternoon.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Construction for the new Cortez fire station is set to start Monday after a ground breaking ceremony Tuesday afternoon.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Cortez Fire Protection District held a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday to officially begin the construction of the new fire station.<\/p>\n<p>Several members of the district board attended, along with the new building\u2019s contractors and a few interested citizens, including Cortez Police Chief Roy Lane. They used red shovels to symbolically break ground on what will become part of the new building\u2019s training area on North Washington Street. The actual start date for the construction project is Monday, when Weeminuche Construction Authority will begin demolition on the current administration building and parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Blackmer, project manager for the new fire station, said he was excited to get started on the 11-month contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up here, my kids are growing up here \u2013 I\u2019m going to be able to drive by this building for the rest of my life, knowing I was a part of it,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s really important to me, and one of the main reasons I really fought hard to try to get this project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the company would try hard not to disrupt traffic or cause a disturbance in the neighborhood during construction, which is scheduled to be complete by May 2018. The building will be on the site of the current administration building and parking lot. When it\u2019s finished, the old station will be torn down. Administrative assistant Wendy Mimiaga said the space would likely be used for more parking.<\/p>\n<p>The district\u2019s administrative offices have moved to the Cortez Area Chamber of Commerce on 31 W. Main St., but the firefighters will operate out of the current station until the new one is complete, Mimiaga said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so nice that we had all this property that we can build on and not interrupt operations,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The new fire station project is being funded by a grant from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs, as well as a lease-purchase agreement and the district\u2019s own tax revenue. It will cost an estimated $4 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction is scheduled to start Monday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,350,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-70802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-fire","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70802","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=70802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70802"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=70802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}