A Massachusetts family’s 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.

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 reported.

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

Nguyen’s wife and brother-in-law were home Tuesday when they noticed a foul odor spreading through their home and went outside to find t

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