At the scene of the slime, hagfish clean-up continues along U.S. 101

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Firefighters, road crews, police and heavy equipment operators tackled the cleanup of thousands of slime eels that fell out of bins and slithered onto Oregon's coastal highway, leaving a gooey white wake that inspired choruses of "ewwww" across the nation.

And that's where most of the dead creatures remained Friday – shoved into ditches along U.S. 101 near Cape Foulweather about 3 miles south of Depoe Bay.

A truck carrying them crashed a day earlier, sending bins of the hagfish, as they're more properly known, careening off a flatbed and onto cars and the highway.

"Everyone was kind of like, what do we do, because we've never seen anything like this," said Lt. Eric Leonard, a firefighter who was one of the first on the scene Thursday. "It looked like something out of 'Ghostbusters.'"

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