LUPTON, Ariz. (AP) — Crews plan to extinguish a fire on Saturday night from a freight train derailment near the Arizona-New Mexico state line that forced the closure of a stretch of Interstate 40. Some wreckage has been removed from the tracks, but about 35 rail cars remain, including a half-dozen rail cars that were carrying non-odorous propane and had caught fire, said Lawrence Montoya Jr., chief of fire and rescue in McKinley County, New Mexico. No injuries were reported in the derailment Friday of the BNSF Railway train near Lupton, Arizona, though, as it turned out, the derailment happened on the New Mexico side of the tracks. About 40 people living within a two-mile radius of the derailment site remain evacuated as a precaution as winds carried away thick smoke and local firefighting crews responded. “We are hoping we can extinguish the fire before midnight,” Montoya said. |
Popular TV Drama Turns Spotlight on Preservation of Shanghai DialectXinjiang's Urumqi Sees Record Number of Tourists in 2023Grassroots Health Centers Step up in Granting Better Elderly LivesRural Tourism Sees Robust GrowthInt'l Tourism Festival Featuring Frozen Waterfalls Opens at Jiuzhaigou National ParkPeople Bustle on the First Day of 2024 in Relocation Sites of NW China's Gansu, QinghaiAcross China: Tourism Rejuvenates Ancient Korean Ethnic Folk VillageZheng reaches Australian Open semifinals after fighting winRoadside Concerts Become a Hit in SW China's GuizhouChina's Nutrition Supply Continues to Improve in 2022: Report