FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.— Eastbound lanes of Interstate 40 were briefly closed Tuesday morning after a fuel tanker exploded and burned Monday night after overturning on a street under the freeway.
Police Lt. Frank Higgins said the truck’s driver was injured but is expected to survive and that nobody else was injured, the Arizona Daily Sun reported.
Witness Loren Graves said the tanker didn’t slow coming down the I-40 eastbound off-ramp at Butler Avenue and overturned when it failed to make the turn at the bottom of the ramp.
Multiple fire departments assisted Flagstaff’s own crews as they worked to keep fuel out of a drainage while allowing the fire to burn itself out.
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