{"id":72209,"date":"2017-05-17T10:41:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T16:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-fire-protection-district-donates-truck-to-smaller-department\/"},"modified":"2017-05-17T16:41:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T16:41:57","slug":"cortez-fire-protection-district-donates-truck-to-smaller-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-fire-protection-district-donates-truck-to-smaller-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez Fire Protection District donates truck to smaller department"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0346a4fb-54e8-4ecc-8a10-cb27c420906e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1216\" alt=\"Cortez Fire Chief Jeff Vandevoorde hands over the keys and title for a 1996 brush truck to Egnar-Slickrock Chief Ian Fahring. At left are Shawn Bittle, of the Cortez district, and Scott Hemphill, of the Egnar district.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Cortez Fire Chief Jeff Vandevoorde hands over the keys and title for a 1996 brush truck to Egnar-Slickrock Chief Ian Fahring. At left are Shawn Bittle, of the Cortez district, and Scott Hemphill, of the Egnar district.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Egnar Fire Chief Ian Fahring said his department contacted Cortez to buy discounted parts for an existing truck. But Cortez Fire Chief Jeff Vandevoorde said he instead offered to donate the brush fire truck, since the district recently acquired a new one. The roughly 20-year-old truck will be the newest in Egnar-Slickrock\u2019s fleet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s nicer than any vehicle we\u2019ve got,\u201d Fahring said. \u201cIt takes almost a year to get a grant or do anything like that, so with fire season coming up, this will help us tremendously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Egnar district covers about 360 square miles in San Miguel County, is made up of volunteers and has an annual budget of $28,000. Vandevoorde said he felt the donation would be \u201ca nice gesture,\u201d since Egnar-Slickrock occasionally helps with fires near  Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>The Cortez district recently donated equipment to the West Fork Fire Department, northeast of Dolores. The department is \u201cin its infancy,\u201d said assistant Cortez  chief Shawn Bittle, and its future chief is training in Cortez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire Chief Jeff Vandevoorde hands over the keys and title for a 1996 brush truck to Egnar-Slickrock Chief Ian Fahring. At left are Shawn Bittle, of the Cortez district, and Scott Hemphill, of the Egnar district.Sam Green\/The Journal Egnar Fire Chief Ian Fahring said his department contacted Cortez to buy discounted parts for an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,1152,350,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-72209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-emergency-incident","tag-fire","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72209","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=72209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72209"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=72209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}