{"id":1312964,"date":"2019-07-29T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/crews-monitoring-small-blaze-in-western-eagle-county\/"},"modified":"2019-07-29T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T03:40:00","slug":"crews-monitoring-small-blaze-in-western-eagle-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/crews-monitoring-small-blaze-in-western-eagle-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews monitoring small blaze in Western Eagle County"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"465\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/Wildfire-VDN-073019.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/Wildfire-VDN-073019.jpg 465w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/Wildfire-VDN-073019-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\"><figcaption><strong>Smoke from the wildfire burning in western Eagle County. Crews will monitor the blaze, which is on less than 5 acres, overnight.<\/strong><br \/><em>Special to the Daily<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Regional firefighters are monitoring a small wildfire that broke out Monday afternoon about 5 miles southwest of Burns on BLM land.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">David Boyd, a spokesman for the Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire Management Unit, said Monday evening that the fire is estimated to be no bigger than 5 acres and is at least a mile from any structures. The fire, which has been named the Red Dirt Cliff Fire, is located approximately 14 miles up Colorado River Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Burns said the blaze consumed pinyon-juniper woodlands and quickly grew, fueled by Monday\u2019s windy conditions, as fire crews raced to the scene. About 30 firefighters, including eight BLM smokejumpers, battled the blaze. Boyd said crews would work until dark Monday before monitoring the fire overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Agencies responding included the Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire Management Unit, Greater Eagle Fire and the Gypsum Fire Protection District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A helicopter and two single-engine tanker planes also helped combat the blaze, Boyd said. A 20-person hand crew is expected to arrive Tuesday morning to help finish off the fire, Boyd said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/local\/crews-monitoring-small-blaze-in-western-eagle-county\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoke from the wildfire burning in western Eagle County. Crews will monitor the blaze, which is on less than 5 acres, overnight.Special to the Daily Regional firefighters are monitoring a small wildfire that broke out Monday afternoon about 5 miles southwest of Burns on BLM land. David Boyd, a spokesman for the Upper Colorado River [&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-1312964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 13:52:54","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\/1312964","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=1312964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}