{"id":70855,"date":"2017-05-03T10:48:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T16:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/residents-escape-house-fire-in-cortez-four-pets-die\/"},"modified":"2017-05-03T16:48:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T16:48:53","slug":"residents-escape-house-fire-in-cortez-four-pets-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/residents-escape-house-fire-in-cortez-four-pets-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents escape house fire in Cortez; four pets die"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f2a9659c-2eae-4b79-a2af-8ae13589da81&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1305\" alt=\"Cortez police Detective Buck Woodman investigates a house at 311 N. Henry St. that burned about midnight Tuesday.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Cortez police Detective Buck Woodman investigates a house at 311 N. Henry St. that burned about midnight Tuesday.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Two Cortez residents narrowly escaped a house fire at 311 North Henry St. early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Two bulldogs and two cats died as a result of the fire, and a Chihuahua was resuscitated by firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe residents only had enough time to escape in what they were sleeping in,\u201d said Jeff Vandevoorde, Cortez fire chief.<\/p>\n<p>When firefighters arrived just after midnight Tuesday, the back of the one-story house was engulfed in flames and heavy smoke.<\/p>\n<p>The fire spread to the attic, and flames were breaking through the roof.<\/p>\n<p>Vandevoorde said 17 firefighters from Cortez, Mancos and Dolores fire departments  knocked down the fire within 45 minutes. Mop-up operations continued for several hours.<\/p>\n<p>No other homes or structures were damaged, Vandevoorde said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters removed a bulldog and Chihuahua from the burning house. Oxygen was administered to both pets, but only the Chihuahua was revived.<\/p>\n<p>The identify of the residents was not released. Victim assistance is being provided by the Cortez Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Cortez fire crews are investigating the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chihuahua resuscitated; 2 dogs and 2 cats perish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,350,13,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-70855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-fire","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70855","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=70855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70855"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=70855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}