{"id":1312120,"date":"2019-07-05T10:18:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T16:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=983081"},"modified":"2019-07-05T10:18:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T16:18:18","slug":"firework-blamed-for-sparking-fire-near-homes-in-grand-junction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/firework-blamed-for-sparking-fire-near-homes-in-grand-junction\/","title":{"rendered":"Firework blamed for sparking fire near homes in Grand Junction"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/Associated-Press-logo-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/Associated-Press-logo-1.png 500w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/Associated-Press-logo-1-300x157.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) \u2014 Authorities in western Colorado say an illegal firework set off by a juvenile started a brush fire that briefly led to the evacuation of seven homes.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Sentinel&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gjsentinel.com\/news\/western_colorado\/redlands-fire-forces-home-evacuations\/article_8c77f556-9ee4-11e9-849a-20677ce07cb4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;that the fire burned about 9 acres in Connected Lake State Park and adjoining neighborhoods northwest of Grand Junction along the Colorado River on Thursday afternoon. No structures were reported damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Junction Fire Department spokesman Dirk Clingman said the fire started in a draw behind one neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>A Bureau of Land Management helicopter dropped water on the fire and a sheriff\u2019s boat was used to get to some of the remaining hot spots along the river. Some neighbors also used their garden hoses to try to stop the fire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/illegal-firework-blamed-for-fire-evacuations-in-grand-junction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) \u2014 Authorities in western Colorado say an illegal firework set off by a juvenile started a brush fire that briefly led to the evacuation of seven homes. The Daily Sentinel&nbsp;reports&nbsp;that the fire burned about 9 acres in Connected Lake State Park and adjoining neighborhoods northwest of Grand Junction along the Colorado [&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":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1312120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 04:22:30","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}