{"id":817015,"date":"2026-08-17T22:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/817015\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T22:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:40:10","slug":"thousands-of-pounds-of-squid-spill-onto-road-in-rhode-island-nbc-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/817015\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of pounds of squid spill onto road in Rhode Island \u2013 NBC Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tractor-trailer carrying thousands of pounds of squid spilled onto a road in Rhode Island that had to be closed for over seven hours on Sunday according to <a href=\"https:\/\/turnto10.com\/news\/local\/thousands-of-pounds-of-squid-spill-onto-road-in-narragansett-tractor-trailer-tipped-over-cleanup-august-16-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC affiliate WJAR. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/53c49255-28cd-46db-a843-c5b9eb795c0b-JOCELYN2.Sub_.01_frame_4764.webp\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tWJARWJAR<\/p>\n<p>The tractor-trailer tipped over at the intersection of Point Judith and Galilee Escape roads in Narragansett.<\/p>\n<p>Crews were seen using skid steers to remove 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, told WJAR.<\/p>\n<p>The tractor-trailer was towed away and no one injuries were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tractor-trailer carrying thousands of pounds of squid spilled onto a road in Rhode Island that had to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[3729,346647,880,79,201],"class_list":["post-817015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-local","tag-massachussets","tag-rhode-island","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817015","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=817015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}