{"id":99155,"date":"2018-06-15T20:55:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T02:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/despite-rumors-no-reports-of-looting-in-evacuated-areas-of-416-fire\/"},"modified":"2018-06-15T20:55:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T02:55:26","slug":"despite-rumors-no-reports-of-looting-in-evacuated-areas-of-416-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/despite-rumors-no-reports-of-looting-in-evacuated-areas-of-416-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite rumors, no reports of looting in evacuated areas of 416 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=e27f9f56-96fb-450e-a536-f543f7279b19&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e27f9f56-96fb-450e-a536-f543f7279b19&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e27f9f56-96fb-450e-a536-f543f7279b19&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e27f9f56-96fb-450e-a536-f543f7279b19&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=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" alt=\"Cars line up at a roadblock Wednesday, June 13, on U.S. Highway 550 near Cometti Lane. Road closures preventing residents and other members of the public have been in place since the start of the 416 Fire. Authorities have not received any reports of looting or burglaries since evacuations started June 1.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Cars line up at a roadblock Wednesday, June 13, on U.S. Highway 550 near Cometti Lane. Road closures preventing residents and other members of the public have been in place since the start of the 416 Fire. Authorities have not received any reports of looting or burglaries since evacuations started June 1.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>La Plata County officials are dispelling rumors of looting in the evacuated areas affected by the 416 Fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rumors are unsubstantiated,\u201d county spokeswoman Megan Graham said Friday evening. \u201cLaw enforcement has been working actively to make sure that didn\u2019t happen, and they\u2019ve been successful in doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first evacuations to be ordered because of the 416 Fire were June 1, the day the fire ignited about 10 miles north of Durango.<\/p>\n<p>As the fire grew and threatened more homes from the Animas Valley north to Purgatory Resort, more than 2,000 homes were evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>In days since, many residents have been able to return to their homes as firefighters successfully fended off flames from populated areas. Despite the fire growing to more than 32,000 acres, no homes or structures have been lost.<\/p>\n<p>The La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office has received no reports of stolen property since residents started to return home, Graham said.<\/p>\n<p>About 230 homes remained evacuated as of Friday night, with about 2,000 more homes on pre-evacuation notice.<\/p>\n<p>Graham said law enforcement has been patrolling neighborhoods since evacuations began to make sure homes are safe.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities escorted cars that were allowed to enter the closed areas that were not part of the firefighting effort, she said.<\/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>County Sheriff\u2019s Office says homes remain safe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[2838,168],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-99155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-416-fire","tag-crime"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99155","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=99155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99155"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=99155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}