{"id":173383,"date":"2023-03-31T22:56:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T22:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=173383"},"modified":"2023-03-31T22:56:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T22:56:19","slug":"colorado-wildfire-reported-in-otero-county-south-of-rocky-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/colorado-wildfire-reported-in-otero-county-south-of-rocky-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado wildfire reported in Otero County south of Rocky Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A highway four miles south of Rocky Ford in Otero County closed temporarily Friday afternoon as firefighters battled a blaze whipped by high winds.<\/p>\n<p>The Otero County Sheriff&#8217;s Office reported the fire around 2:30 p.m., according to a tweet from the undersheriff.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado 71 northbound was closed between Colorado 10 and Otero BB.5, the Colorado Department of Transportation reported. It reopened around around 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Rocky Ford Fire Department is on scene and mutual aid was requested, the undersheriff said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The fire is one of several burning across Colorado as strong winds blow. The winds also have caused road closures because dust storms are causing poor visibility<\/p>\n<h3>Wildfire map<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Click markers for details, use buttons to change what wildfires are shown. Map data is automatically updated by government agencies and could lag real-time events.<\/strong> Incident types are numbered 1-5 \u2014 a type 1 incident is a large, complex wildfire affecting people and critical infrastructure, a type 5 incident is a small wildfire with few personnel involved. Find more information about incident types at the bottom of this page.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2023\/03\/31\/rocky-ford-otero-county-wildfire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A highway four miles south of Rocky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":173382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Colorado wildfire reported in Otero County south of Rocky Ford - Pre Coin News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/colorado-wildfire-reported-in-otero-county-south-of-rocky-ford\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Colorado wildfire reported in Otero County south of Rocky Ford - 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