{"id":52368,"date":"2025-11-26T00:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/52368\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T00:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:51:11","slug":"hundreds-of-gallons-of-heating-oil-pumped-directly-into-massachusetts-home-after-company-delivers-to-wrong-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/52368\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of gallons of heating oil pumped directly into Massachusetts home after company delivers to wrong address"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Massachusetts family\u2019s basement was flooded with hundreds of gallons of heating oil in a disastrous mishap just days before they were scheduled to host Thanksgiving after a company pumped the batch into the wrong house on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The oil company, Fawcett Energy, was supposed to make the delivery at a home on Linwood Street in Malden, Mass., but instead showed up at a home on Linwood Street in Medford, Mass., roughly 10 miles away, CBS News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

The Medford home was equipped with a pipe to push the oil into a tank in the basement \u2014 except there was no tank. Homeowner Dan Nguyen told NBC 10 Boston<\/a> that the oil tank was removed five years ago.<\/p>\n

A home in Massachusetts was mistakenly filled with heating oil on Tuesday. WCVB via Dang Nguyen<\/p>\n

Nguyen\u2019s wife and brother-in-law were home Tuesday when they noticed a foul odor spreading through their home and went outside to find the surprise delivery person pumping oil into the pipe and directly into their house, he told the local news station. <\/p>\n

Roughly 385 gallons of oil were leaked into Nguyen\u2019s basement, Medford Fire Department Deputy Chief Nicholas Davis estimated.<\/p>\n

The delivery was made to the wrong house in the wrong town. WCVB Channel 5 Boston<\/p>\n

\u201cNormally, when you\u2019re filling up an oil tank, once it starts to get full, you\u2019ll hear the whistle and that tells the driver to shut down the oil. There\u2019s no whistle because there\u2019s no tank,\u201d Davis told WCVB<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite the catastrophe, Nguyen was understanding, even after his home had to be evacuated because of the dangerous fumes.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone made a mistake, you know, sometimes they put a wrong address,\u201d Nguyen told the outlet.<\/p>\n

The home was deemed unsafe and evacuated. WCVB via Dang Nguyen<\/p>\n

The home isn\u2019t safe to live in for the foreseeable future, which put a snag in the family\u2019s Thanksgiving plans, as he told CBS News they were set to host 20 people for turkey dinner.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am going to call tomorrow and cancel,\u201d Nguyen relented.<\/p>\n

Nguyen\u2019s brother, Tien, told NBC 10 Boston that everything was \u201cmessed up in the basement\u201d and that they \u201cdon\u2019t know how long\u201d until they will be allowed to return.<\/p>\n

The residents were set to host 20 people at a Thanksgiving celebration in the home on Thursday. WCVB Channel 5 Boston<\/p>\n

For now, they\u2019ll be hunkering down at a relative\u2019s home with the belongings they were able to salvage from their home. The six residents of the home are also receiving assistance from the Red Cross, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the building inspector are both investigating the incident.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear how long the home repair could take. The Post reached out to Fawcett Energy for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Massachusetts family\u2019s basement was flooded with hundreds of gallons of heating oil in a disastrous mishap just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[195,5013,11539,9,11,10,21760,6967,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-52368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-firefighters","9":"tag-homeowners","10":"tag-massachusetts","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-oil","15":"tag-thanksgiving","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}