Big Island firefighters cleaned up a gasoline spill in the parking lot of the Costco in Kona yesterday afternoon.

Firefighters responded to a 12:02 p.m. call of leaking gasoline coming from under a pickup truck. Personnel dismantled the bed of the pickup but found they could not stop the leak by plugging the vehicle’s ruptured fuel tank, the Hawaii County Fire Department said.

They then siphoned the fuel directly from the tank into portable fuel cans and lowered the level of the fuel far below the rupture. A flatbed tow truck then removed the vehicle.