{"id":92241,"date":"2019-10-13T00:54:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T00:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/woman-killed-man-injured-friday-evening-in-archuleta-county-explosion-and-fire\/"},"modified":"2019-10-13T00:54:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T00:54:23","slug":"woman-killed-man-injured-friday-evening-in-archuleta-county-explosion-and-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/woman-killed-man-injured-friday-evening-in-archuleta-county-explosion-and-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed, man injured Friday evening in Archuleta County explosion and fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0b4b5d22-5251-4ec2-ab83-4f88b63b1a24&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1284\" height=\"864\" alt=\"An explosion and fire killed a woman, injured a man and destroyed a structure in Archuleta County on Friday evening.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">An explosion and fire killed a woman, injured a man and destroyed a structure in Archuleta County on Friday evening.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>An explosion and fire Friday evening in Archuleta County killed a woman, injured a man, destroyed a detached garage and damaged an adjacent home, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Archuleta County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies heard a \u201cloud explosion\u201d around 7:12 p.m. that sounded like it came from the Aspen Village subdivision behind Walmart, according to a news release from Undersheriff Derek Woodman.<\/p>\n<p>Within moments, Archuleta Combined Dispatch \u201cbegan receiving numerous 911 calls\u201d about a blast at a residence in the 900 block of Cool Pines Drive, about 1,500 yards behind the Supercenter, Woodman wrote in the release.<\/p>\n<p>One of the emergency calls came from the address where the explosion happened \u2013 the caller told dispatchers there were two people inside a detached garage that exploded and caught fire, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>Bystanders who saw the explosion pulled Fred Phillips, 72, of Shreveport, Louisiana, from the perimeter of the burning structure, according to law enforcement. County records show Phillips bought the property in 2007 for $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips was conscious when bystanders pulled him from the blaze and said a woman was still inside the burning building. He suffered \u201csevere burns and other related trauma,\u201d was taken by ambulance to Pagosa Springs Medical Center then flown to a Denver-area hospital where he remains in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders pulled an unidentifiable female body from the debris Saturday morning, Woodman said in an interview. The Archuleta County Coroner\u2019s Office is working to identify the person and notify her family, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were still at the scene of the explosion and fire as of 11:30 a.m. Saturday. The garage is \u201ca total loss \u2013 complete destruction,\u201d Woodman said. The adjacent home was damaged by the fire, but was unclear Saturday morning what the cost of the damage may be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an all night effort,\u201d he said. \u201cIt (the fire) was down, then it would come back up. It was very hot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No foul play is suspected, Woodman said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:bhauff@durangoherald.com\">bhauff@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency responders stayed on scene into Saturday morning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6025,5932,6024,5825,5737,5736,5735,5741],"tags":[493,255,4491,350,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-92241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archuleta-county","category-death-and-dying","category-explosion","category-fire","category-headlines","category-local-news","category-news","category-newsletter","tag-archuleta-county","tag-death-and-dying","tag-explosion","tag-fire","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92241","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=92241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92241"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=92241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}