{"id":325505,"date":"2026-08-20T02:16:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325505\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T02:16:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:16:59","slug":"tanker-spills-about-2000-gallons-of-fuel-after-overturning-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325505\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanker spills about 2,000 gallons of fuel after overturning in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crews had to clean up thousands of gallons of spilled gasoline after a tanker truck overturned on a Queens road on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The accident happened on Rockaway Boulevard in Rosedale just after 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials said the 18-wheeler was leaking about 2,000 gallons of fuel into the roadway, storm drains, and the canal, which leads to other channels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The leak was stopped, and firefighters sprayed foam to cover all of the leaked fuel.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Citizen App\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/wabc_articles_804\/775ea21a6864b235f64f8ef28da7086b.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials said the tanker had a 12,400-gallon capacity but was only carrying 8,500 gallons at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Another truck offloaded the gas from the overturned vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The truck driver and two others were checked out on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials said 100 firefighters from 17 volunteer fire departments in Nassau County are on the scene along with the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nassau County police will investigate how the truck overturned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One witness said the driver had just left the gas station and flipped while turning onto Rockaway Boulevard<\/p>\n<p>Submit a tip or story idea to Eyewitness News<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Have a breaking news tip or an idea for a story we should cover? Send it to Eyewitness News using the form below. If attaching a video or photo, <a data-ylk=\"slk:terms of use apply.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/image-video-solicitation-and-rights-terms-of-use\/5101040\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">terms of use apply.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews had to clean up thousands of gallons of spilled gasoline after a tanker truck overturned on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123,51932,122477],"class_list":["post-325505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-rockaway-boulevard","tag-tanker-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}