{"id":94054,"date":"2019-05-13T11:55:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T17:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-dog-found-dead-after-motor-home-fire-south-of-cortez\/"},"modified":"2019-05-13T11:55:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T17:55:11","slug":"man-dog-found-dead-after-motor-home-fire-south-of-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-dog-found-dead-after-motor-home-fire-south-of-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, dog found dead after motor home fire south of Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3f5553df-ccc5-4e16-b9b2-d32c0ee376fd&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3f5553df-ccc5-4e16-b9b2-d32c0ee376fd&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3f5553df-ccc5-4e16-b9b2-d32c0ee376fd&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3f5553df-ccc5-4e16-b9b2-d32c0ee376fd&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1511\" height=\"1227\" alt=\"Pat Goddard recently passed away in a motorhome that caught fire Sunday morning of Road F. In this file photo he enjoys biking the Boggy Draw trails with his dog Poodles.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Pat Goddard recently passed away in a motorhome that caught fire Sunday morning of Road F. In this file photo he enjoys biking the Boggy Draw trails with his dog Poodles.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jim Mimiaga\/Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A man died in a motor home that caught fire south of Cortez about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, according to Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Goddard, 63, was found dead after a fire engulfed the vehicle he was living in at 21455 County Road F. His dog also died in the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen rescuers arrived the RV was totally engulfed,\u201d Nowlin said.<\/p>\n<p>Propane space heaters used in the 1978 motor home are the suspected cause, he said. Foul play is not suspected. An autopsy on Goddard is expected this week.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors woken by explosions, likely from the propane tanks, reported the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Goddard was a longtime resident of the area, Nowlin said. His relatives have been notified.<\/p>\n<p>The Cortez Fire Protection District and Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office responded to the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Propane heaters are the suspected cause<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21,255,350,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-94054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-death-and-dying","tag-fire","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94054","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=94054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94054"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=94054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}