{"id":93619,"date":"2019-06-07T13:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/crews-will-keep-fighting-fire-friday-on-missionary-ridge\/"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:00:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T19:00:03","slug":"crews-will-keep-fighting-fire-friday-on-missionary-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/crews-will-keep-fighting-fire-friday-on-missionary-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews will keep fighting fire Friday on Missionary Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=bf2610d2-40d3-480c-bf28-af0c1222f102&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"996\" alt=\"The U.S. Forest Service expected a small fire on Missionary Ridge to be contained Friday. Smoke, however, could be visible for several days.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The U.S. Forest Service expected a small fire on Missionary Ridge to be contained Friday. Smoke, however, could be visible for several days.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A small fire on Missionary Ridge was expected to be contained Friday, but smoke could linger for days, according to the U.S. Forest Service.<\/p>\n<p>The 156 Fire <a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/280248-small-fire-breaks-out-on-missionary-ridge-north-of-durango\">broke out Thursday afternoon<\/a>, ignited by a lightning strike, said Denise Alonzo, spokeswoman for the Forest Service.<\/p>\n<p>A crew of about 12 firefighters was on scene Friday attempting to knock down hot spots within the burn area. Alonzo said a helicopter would continue bucket drops throughout Friday because firefighting engines were unable to access the area.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, burning above the Bar D Chuckwagon in the Animas Valley, north of Durango, was about an acre in size Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Forest Service officials said the blaze was burning with low intensity in the \u201cheavy dead and down material\u201d left from the 2002 Missionary Ridge Fire, which ripped through 71,739 acres.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday morning, there was no threat to structures, Alonso said. Smoke, however, should be visible for several days as the heavy material burns within the fire perimeter.<\/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>structures are threatened, Forest Service says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[884,2161,549,84],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-93619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-hermosa","tag-missionary-ridge","tag-united-states-forest-service","tag-wildfire"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93619","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=93619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93619"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=93619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}