MEDFORD, MASS. (WHDH) - Hazmat crews were called to a home
in Medford Monday after an oil delivery driver dumped 383 gallons of heating
oil into a home that had a fill pipe but no oil tank, according to officials.
Officials said the Fawcett Oil delivery driver went to the
right address, but in the wrong city. Instead of going to 48 Linwood Street in
Malden, he went to 48 Linwood Street in Medford.
Fire officials said the driver attached the hose to the
fillup pipe on the side of the house, but that pipe was not connected to any
oil tanks — so 383 gallons of oil ended up in the home’s basement.
“Oil delivery driver pulled up to the wrong address,” said
Medford Deputy Fire Chief Nick Davis. “Put 385 gallons of oil into a basement
with no oil tank.”
Residents of the two family home quickly evacuated and the
area was sealed off.
“It smelled very bad,” said Dang Nguyen, the homeowner.
“Even, you know, I’m living in the second floor and I smell. I came home and
came in to drop something off and it smelled very bad.”
Crews began cleanup using shovels and speedy dry. They first
tried to contain then remove the oil with the Department of Environmental
Protection on the scene.
Fawcett Oil hung up on 7NEWS during a request for comment.
Six people are now without a place to live as the home is
currently deemed unsafe. There is no timeline for when they will be able to
return.
Interesting coincidence that a New England "community" has both Dang Nguyen and a delivery driver who doesn't know what town he's in.
ReplyDeleteThis is a more common occurrence than one would suspect. It usually happens after a house converts from oil to gas and fails to remove the fill pipe to the Basement oil tank. The homeowner then Forget to tell the oil company to stop delivery, or the oil company disregards the directive. And it takes close to a year for the smell of number two oil to disappear.
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