{"id":264467,"date":"2026-04-12T20:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/264467\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T20:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:53:16","slug":"hazmat-responds-to-fuel-leak-from-car-in-san-diego-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/264467\/","title":{"rendered":"HAZMAT responds to fuel leak from car in San Diego creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SAN DIEGO <a href=\"https:\/\/fox5sandiego.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:(FOX 5\/KUSI);elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;(FOX 5\/KUSI)&quot;}\" class=\"link \">(FOX 5\/KUSI)<\/a> \u2014 First responders and Hazmat teams in San Diego were busy pulling a car from a creek and cleaning fuel from the water Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">San Diego Police officers responded around 9 a.m. to reports of a blue Hyundai Tucson that was found in a creek off of State Route 52 and Genesee Avenue in the area of Marian Bear Memorial Park. Officers checked the area and said they did not find anyone in the car and no air bags were deployed, although it appeared the car could have fallen into the creek from the highway off-ramp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hazmat teams were also called to the area to help clean fuel and oil that was seen leaking into the creek.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/fox5sandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/04\/HAZMAT-responds-to-fuel-leak-from-car-in-San-Diego-creek.png\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"First responders and Hazmat teams in San Diego were busy pulling a car from a creek and cleaning fuel and oil from the water Sunday morning (FOX 5\/KUSI) \" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"706\" height=\"529\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8ed610d1233528bf783ae155a0de35ff.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First responders and Hazmat teams in San Diego were busy pulling a car from a creek and cleaning fuel and oil from the water Sunday morning (FOX 5\/KUSI) <\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/fox5sandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/04\/HAZMAT-responds-to-fuel-leak-from-car-in-San-Diego-creek-2.png\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"First responders and Hazmat teams in San Diego were busy pulling a car from a creek and cleaning fuel and oil from the water Sunday morning (FOX 5\/KUSI) \" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"704\" height=\"528\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/eec2653eee9613b9e9ccbc4d8bddcf66.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First responders and Hazmat teams in San Diego were busy pulling a car from a creek and cleaning fuel and oil from the water Sunday morning (FOX 5\/KUSI) <\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/fox5sandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/04\/car-in-creek-SR-52.png\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"First responders and Hazmat teams in San Diego were busy pulling a car from a creek and cleaning fuel and oil from the water Sunday morning (FOX 5\/KUSI)\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"705\" height=\"529\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/c78abc14b60a5bf11a6a9bd40610bf09.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First responders and Hazmat teams in San Diego were busy pulling a car from a creek and cleaning fuel and oil from the water Sunday morning (FOX 5\/KUSI) <\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/fox5sandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/04\/car-pulled-from-creek.png\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"First responders and Hazmat teams in San Diego were busy pulling a car from a creek and cleaning fuel and oil from the water Sunday morning (FOX 5\/KUSI) \" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"703\" height=\"526\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ec7cd3eae4e71f25840e7f332544f819.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First responders and Hazmat teams in San Diego were busy pulling a car from a creek and cleaning fuel and oil from the water Sunday morning (FOX 5\/KUSI) <\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are still investigating the circumstances of the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Check back for updates on this developing story<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fox5sandiego.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX 5 San Diego &amp; KUSI News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX 5 San Diego &amp;amp&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX 5 San Diego &amp; KUSI News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (FOX 5\/KUSI) \u2014 First responders and Hazmat teams in San Diego were busy pulling a car&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[283,115908,115909,115907,74,76,75,985],"class_list":["post-264467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-car","tag-clean-fuel","tag-hazmat-teams","tag-marian-bear-memorial-park","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}