{"id":816177,"date":"2026-08-17T03:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/816177\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T03:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:52:10","slug":"thousands-of-pounds-of-squid-spill-onto-road-in-narragansett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/816177\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of pounds of squid spill onto road in Narragansett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(WJAR)  \u2014 A massive spill from a tractor-trailer carrying thousands of pounds of squid caused a roadway to be closed for more than seven hours on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The tractor-trailer tipped over at the intersection of Point Judith and Galilee Escape roads Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A massive spill from a tractor-trailer carrying thousands of pounds of squid caused a roadway to be closed for more than seven hours on Sunday. (WJAR)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/068e921d-163e-4a76-98da-0b39ac944c37-JOCELYN2.Sub.01_frame_8722.jpeg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A massive spill from a tractor-trailer carrying thousands of pounds of squid caused a roadway to be closed for more than seven hours on Sunday. (WJAR)<\/p>\n<p>Crews were seen using skid steers to scrape the squid off the hot pavement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Squid has a distinctive odor to it, I&#8217;m a fisherman and I use squid for bait. I&#8217;m quite used to it, but it can be very foul-smelling especially if it lies on the road and stays there for a while. The fire department is doing a great job cleaning thing up as best they can,\u201d Richard Stevens, a neighbor, said.<\/p>\n<p>The tractor-trailer has since been towed away.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The road reopened at about 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WJAR) \u2014 A massive spill from a tractor-trailer carrying thousands of pounds of squid caused a roadway to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-816177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}