According to an alert, residents near that part of Interstate 10 (east of Houghton, west of Kolb, north of Valencia, and south of Voyager) should take shelter immediately. Also, turn off any machines that bring in any outside air, like air conditioning and heaters.

very orange gas/fumes/smoke. wonder what it is

edit - same pic in your first reply

That's going to take a couple days, at least.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — UPDATE: 4:55 a.m.

Unified Command has reinstated the shelter in place around that one mile-perimeter of the incident.

We're told more gas was released as crews attempted to remove the load from the wrecked vehicle.

Unified Command says they expect extensive closures.

last night the west bound detour was going through Vail to Houghton, then to Valencia back to I 10. this morning early it was going up Rita Road and over to Valencia etc, but by the time we (and dozens of wide load trucks that must have been camped out the last couple days?) got to the Rita Road exit, everything was open again.








it would amuse me greatly if enough of the fumes got to and eventually ruined the painting on the water tower.

Must have been in containers of some sort.

you can kind of tell it's a box in the orange cloud photos