Bad fuel at Sarasota Marathon blamed for engine damage

Gayle Callahan stopped at a Marathon station on Fruitville Road on Monday to fill up her gas tank. But she ended up with more than gasoline in her tank.

The car stalled shortly after she left the station, she said, and had to be towed to a dealer. There, she said the dealer extracted what looked like water mixed with gasoline and supplied her a sample of the concoction in a water bottle.

State officials later confirmed the gas tank had water mixed in the underground tank.

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