{"id":74400,"date":"2019-09-18T22:15:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T22:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/burger-king-back-open-after-gas-leak-repaired\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:58:18","slug":"burger-king-back-open-after-gas-leak-repaired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/burger-king-back-open-after-gas-leak-repaired\/","title":{"rendered":"Burger King back open after gas leak repaired"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f1228cb3-25b1-4c0f-b6da-ed2e85251154&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1131\" alt=\"The Burger King in Cortez is back in business after closing for a few days to make repairs.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Burger King in Cortez is back in business after closing for a few days to make repairs.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Burger King in Cortez is back in business after shutting down for a few days earlier this month because of a gas leak and equipment repairs.<\/p>\n<p>According to Atmos Energy, around 4 p.m., Sept. 5 a customer reported a possible natural gas leak in the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>An inspection soon after by an Atmos technician revealed unsafe conditions on a cooking appliance and water boiler that had leaking gas connections, said Kurtis Paradisa, public affairs manager for Atmos Energy Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur technician was able to safely isolate both issues inside the restaurant,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant closed for three days to make repairs, according to Cortez and Montezuma County code officials. It re-opened on Sept. 10.<\/p>\n<p>State and county regulations require a restaurant to have hot water in order to operate.<\/p>\n<p>Atmos and the city required a licensed professional to install the new gas lines and replace the water boiler. The repaired units also had to pass a city fire code inspection.<\/p>\n<p>City permits were required to replace the boiler, city officials said, and it took time for the restaurant to obtain a licensed plumber and gas technician to install a new water heater and repair the appliance gas lines.<\/p>\n<p>The new water heater and gas lines passed the city fire code inspection, according to a report by Cortez Fire Code inspector Sean Canada. A green tag was given to the manager, and the restaurant resumed operations.<\/p>\n<p>Less serious code issues were revealed by the inspection. A faulty hood must be repaired, and batteries need to be replaced in emergency lighting. A follow up inspection is scheduled for Sept. 20.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to contact Burger King representatives for comment on the matter were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday afternoon, the restaurant was bustling with staff preparing orders, a line at the drive-thru and customers eating inside. The manager said she could not comment on the recent closure.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Montezuma County Assessor\u2019s office, the Burger King in Cortez is owned by Fatemah Imami, of Greeley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Establishment closed for three days, equipment replaced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6079,5738,5740,5737,5736,5735,5741,5899],"tags":[3880,21,13,28,29,450],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-74400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atmos-energy","category-cortez","category-frontpage-lead","category-headlines","category-local-news","category-news","category-newsletter","category-restaurant-and-catering","tag-atmos-energy","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-restaurant-and-catering"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74400","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=74400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92461,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74400\/revisions\/92461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74400"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=74400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}