{"id":16915,"date":"2019-07-23T12:59:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T18:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=58965"},"modified":"2019-07-23T12:59:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T18:59:55","slug":"shed-fire-in-rio-blanco-county-reaches-80-percent-containment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/shed-fire-in-rio-blanco-county-reaches-80-percent-containment\/","title":{"rendered":"Shed Fire in Rio Blanco County reaches 80 percent containment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/07\/ShedFire-CDP-072419-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/07\/ShedFire-CDP-072419-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/07\/ShedFire-CDP-072419-1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"><figcaption><strong>The Shed Fire began Thursday, July 18 west of Meeker.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy of Rio Blanco County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Shed Fire was reported as 80% contained in a Facebook post by Rio Blanco County Sheriff\u2019s Office on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The lightning-caused fire 24 miles west of Meeker was noted as holding at 217 acres after&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigdailypress.com\/news\/shed-fire-ongoing-in-rio-blanco-county\/\">burning since July 18<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Area fire personnel on the blaze near Greasewood Gulch included Meeker Fire &amp; Rescue and Bureau of Land Management, as well as a Type 2 Initial Attack Crew.<\/p>\n<p>Though the sheriff\u2019s office social media post said there was minimal growth, it warned that weather in the coming days could impact the fire, including lightning and high winds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThunderstorm coverage will increase throughout mid-week as additional moisture becomes available,\u201d the post stated. \u201cLightning and gusty winds will be the main threats with storms early in the week. Heavy rainfall rates will become more of a threat by Wednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/regional\/shed-fire-in-rio-blanco-county-reaches-80-percent-containment\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shed Fire began Thursday, July 18 west of Meeker.Courtesy of Rio Blanco County Sheriff\u2019s Office The Shed Fire was reported as 80% contained in a Facebook post by Rio Blanco County Sheriff\u2019s Office on Monday. The lightning-caused fire 24 miles west of Meeker was noted as holding at 217 acres after&nbsp;burning since July 18. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 01:43:20","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":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}