{"id":1314355,"date":"2019-09-06T20:33:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T02:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=987248"},"modified":"2019-09-09T09:59:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T15:59:17","slug":"high-winds-spur-fire-to-1000-acres-in-rio-blanco-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/high-winds-spur-fire-to-1000-acres-in-rio-blanco-county\/","title":{"rendered":"High winds spur fire to 1,000 acres in Rio Blanco County"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/02\/PI-breaking-news-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Fueled by fierce winds, A fire surged to 1,000 acres Friday afternoon roughly 26 miles southwest of Meeker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA thousand acres is our best estimate,\u201d said David Boyd, public affairs specialist for the Bureau of Land Management. \u201cWe\u2019ll fly it tonight with aircraft and get a better estimate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hunt Fire was started Thursday night by a lightning strike on BLM-managed lands, which includes Hunter Creek, Willow Creek, and Big Jimmy Gulch, according to a news release from the BLM.<\/p>\n<p>The Northwest Colorado Interagency Fire Management Unit is managing the fire response. Authorities also reconnoitered the area to warn hunters in the area for archery season of the danger.<\/p>\n<p>Boyd said the fire is burning in thick, heavy brush and is not currently threatening any structures \u2014 thanks in large part to the work by fire crews to protect nearby buildings earlier Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The vegetation makes for tough firefighting conditions, Boyd said, but allowing it to burn can help mitigate future fire risk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s doing good work out there, opening up that forest, which will help wildlife,\u201d he said. \u201cThat also gives us some places we can better defend (during future fires).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fire is almost certain to remain active for at least the next couple days, Boyd said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if we get some cloudy afternoons and that kind of thing, that\u2019ll diminish the fire behavior,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Go to the Rio Blanco County Sheriff\u2019s Facebook Page for the most up-to-date information about the Hunt Fire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/high-winds-spur-fire-to-1000-acres-in-rio-blanco-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fueled by fierce winds, A fire surged to 1,000 acres Friday afternoon roughly 26 miles southwest of Meeker. \u201cA thousand acres is our best estimate,\u201d said David Boyd, public affairs specialist for the Bureau of Land Management. \u201cWe\u2019ll fly it tonight with aircraft and get a better estimate.\u201d The Hunt Fire was started Thursday night [&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-1314355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 02:19:46","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\/1314355","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=1314355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314422,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314355\/revisions\/1314422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}