{"id":73281,"date":"2016-07-18T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/black-ridge-fire-now-100-percent-contained\/"},"modified":"2016-07-18T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T12:01:00","slug":"black-ridge-fire-now-100-percent-contained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/black-ridge-fire-now-100-percent-contained\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Ridge Fire now 100 percent contained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=82e69b73-77b1-42a6-9b77-6ca66c617e4d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1928\" height=\"1108\" alt=\"The Black Ridge Fire burned about 78 acres in southern La Plata County, and initially had air support to drop fire retardant on the perimeter. It was 100 percent contained Sunday, but not yet declared out.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Black Ridge Fire burned about 78 acres in southern La Plata County, and initially had air support to drop fire retardant on the perimeter. It was 100 percent contained Sunday, but not yet declared out.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>By 4:30 p.m. Sunday, the Black Ridge Fire that swept across 78 acres of pi\u00f1on and juniper in southern La Plata County was 100 percent contained, county officials announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out Wednesday, announcing its arrival with a plume of smoke visible for miles. By Thursday evening, pre-evacuation orders for neighboring residences were lifted, and operations at nearby oil and gas facilities had returned to normal by Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Southern Ute Tribe Bureau of Indian Affairs Fire Management Team worked over the weekend to contain the flames with assistance from the Los Pinos and Durango Fire protection districts and other county services.<\/p>\n<p>A 20-person crew of state and federal agencies will monitor and clean the Black Ridge area in the days ahead.<\/p>\n<p>According to county officials, the fire is not likely to be declared \u201cout\u201d until the area receives needed rainfall, which could arrive Wednesday subsequent to lightning forecast for Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Ute firefighters responded Monday morning to a single-tree fire, caused by Sunday night lightning.<\/p>\n<p>In light of recent hot, dry weather that has fueled a slew of recent fires in La Plata County, a red flag warning was in effect Monday for western Colorado and parts of southeastern Utah, as well as a no-burn order.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jpace@durangoherald.com\">jpace@durangoherald.com<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State, federal crews handling cleanup, monitoring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,84],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-73281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-wildfire"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73281","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=73281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73281"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=73281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}