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Interstate 40 was reopened in both directions Sunday as fire crews continued watch over a controlled burn of remaining fuel from a freight train derailment near the Arizona-New Mexico state line, a local fire chief said. “Our hazmat team is on site, along with our well-trained firefighters.” Montoya, the incident commander at the scene, said the controlled burns were still consuming remaining fuel on some cars.

Nashville, TN - The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) in Montgomery County will improve the intersections on SR 112 / SR 76 by grading,

Thirty-five rail cars of a train derailed in New Mexico Friday afternoon, prompting evacuations and forcing a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 40 to close.

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. 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.

A train derailment has closed Interstate 40 in both directions west of Gallup.