{"id":800046,"date":"2019-10-03T18:05:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T00:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=372490"},"modified":"2019-10-04T08:27:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T14:27:55","slug":"wildfire-closes-i-70-near-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/wildfire-closes-i-70-near-edwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire closes I-70 near Edwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/IMG_3785-1024x768-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/IMG_3785-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/IMG_3785-1024x768-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/IMG_3785-1024x768-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p><figcaption><strong>A wildfire near Edwards has closed I-70.<\/strong><br \/><em>Photo courtesy Jessica Beegle<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>VAIL \u2014 The east- and westbound lanes of Interstate 70 are closed outside of Edwards because of a wildfire in the area that sparked at about 5:30 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The interstate is closed between Exit 157 at Wolcott (Colorado Highway 131) and Exit 167 at Avon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the red flag warning and the wind, we\u2019re not surprised that a spark would spread quickly,\u201d said Tracy Leclair, of the Eagle River Fire Protection District. \u201cLuckily we crews were able to be on the scene almost immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Department of Transportation is telling drivers to expect long delays, and the Colorado State Patrol is asking people to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story will be updated at<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/i-70-closed-near-edwards-due-to-fire-in-area\/\"><em>VailDaily.com<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/wildfire-closes-i-70-near-edwards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wildfire near Edwards has closed I-70.Photo courtesy Jessica Beegle VAIL \u2014 The east- and westbound lanes of Interstate 70 are closed outside of Edwards because of a wildfire in the area that sparked at about 5:30 p.m. Thursday. The interstate is closed between Exit 157 at Wolcott (Colorado Highway 131) and Exit 167 at [&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":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-800046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 21:17:53","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800074,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800046\/revisions\/800074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}