{"id":1408787,"date":"2019-10-18T16:58:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T22:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=989637"},"modified":"2019-10-21T08:51:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T14:51:15","slug":"fire-sparks-near-new-castle-again-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/fire-sparks-near-new-castle-again-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire sparks near New Castle again on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commuters traveling along Interstate 70 near the town of New Castle encountered yet another small fire Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Early Thursday, a brush fire burned a little over 1 acre on I-70\u2019s eastbound shoulder near New Castle at mile marker 107.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Friday\u2019s small fire sparked in a similar location near mile marker 105 also on Interstate 70\u2019s eastbound shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>According to Colorado River Fire Rescue spokeswoman Maria Pi\u00f1a, Friday\u2019s fire was approximately 300 feet long and 50 feet wide.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze, which shut down both of Interstate 70\u2019s eastbound lanes for roughly one hour, was reported at 7:59 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado River Fire Rescue was able to extinguish the fire by 9 a.m. with no injuries or property damage to report.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of Friday\u2019s fire was ruled undetermined.<\/p>\n<p>When questioned about the possibility of arson given the similar timeframe and location of the fires, Pi\u00f1a said that too was undetermined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Fire investigators] can\u2019t find any evidence of anything,\u201d Pi\u00f1a said.<\/p>\n<p><em>mabennett@postindependent.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/fire-sparks-near-new-castle-again-on-friday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commuters traveling along Interstate 70 near the town of New Castle encountered yet another small fire Friday morning. Early Thursday, a brush fire burned a little over 1 acre on I-70\u2019s eastbound shoulder near New Castle at mile marker 107. Additionally, Friday\u2019s small fire sparked in a similar location near mile marker 105 also on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1408787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 18:59:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408949,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408787\/revisions\/1408949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}