{"id":89452,"date":"2020-04-08T21:31:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T03:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fire-destroys-home-north-of-silverton\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:55:22","slug":"fire-destroys-home-north-of-silverton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fire-destroys-home-north-of-silverton\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire destroys home north of Silverton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=267bac74-e662-4c78-a259-4b06f29d590b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"A fire destroyed a home north of Silverton, displacing its owner.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A fire destroyed a home north of Silverton, displacing its owner.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of GoFundMe<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A fire destroyed a home a few miles north of Silverton, displacing its owner amid the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>San Juan County Sheriff Bruce Conrad said emergency personnel were dispatched to the home about 5 miles up County Road 110 around 5:30 p.m. March 27.<\/p>\n<p>By the time emergency responders arrived, the house was fully engulfed. Firefighters turned their attention to keeping the fire from spreading into the surrounding forest, Conrad said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to just watch it burn,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The home was destroyed. Two pets are assumed to be lost in the blaze. And the homeowner, Jane Legge, one of the only residents who live year-round in the remote parts of San Juan County outside Silverton, is staying at a local hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Conrad said investigators believe the fire started in the kitchen, but the cause has not yet been determined.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/jane-legges-house-fire?fbclid=IwAR3KUoxcgE-dLKMT04dDQp61xmWJfj3TWNlVde9fItFNNxrkBrXm3vgT3Jg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A GoFundMe campaign started to help Legge<\/a> had raised about $9,000 as of Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Displaced homeowner staying at local hotel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[350,1562,327],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-89452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-fire","tag-san-juan-county-colorado","tag-silverton"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89452","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=89452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89462,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89452\/revisions\/89462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89452"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=89452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}