Interstate 40

Arizona is taking another step that benefits long-distance truckers hauling freight during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Fire crews were dispatched Tuesday to battle the flames on a blaze moving across grass and Ponderosa Pine near Sherwood Forest Estates outside of Williams.

Plows are clearing roads on parts of northern Arizona on the first day of spring after a storm dropped heavy snow that created traffic backups Thursday morning.

Eastbound lanes of Interstate 40 were briefly closed Monday night after a fuel tanker exploded and burned at the Butler Avenue exit in Flagstaff.   Flagstaff Police Lieutenant Frank Higgins says the truck's driver was injured but is expected to survive.

NOTE: Interstate-40 westbound has since reopened near Holbrook following the law enforcement incident.

A 53-mile stretch of westbound Interstate 40 is closed east of Holbrook in northeastern Arizona because of a law enforcement situation involving gunfire.