Bangor -
An oil spill at a house in Bangor Wednesday sent an elderly woman to the hospital.
The other people who live there wonder when it will be safe to return.
Fred Mulheron says the trouble started at the house on French Street about 9 a.m.
He lives there with his mother and son.
Mulheron's in the process of converting the heating in the house from oil to natural gas.
Crews from Webber Energy came to pump the oil out of the tank but Mulheron's 81-year-old mother says the truck was too full.
She says oil leaked out of the hose and spilled in the cellar and the yard.
While crews were cleaning it up, Mulheron says his mother collapsed from breathing in the fumes.
"My understand is the truck was full. They even spilled some in the roadway leaving. To me if you got 5 gallons of water, you make sure to have a 5 gallon plus bucket to put it in. So it seems to be negligence."
We're told Yvonne Mulheron, who already has respiratory health problems, is still being evaluated at St. Joseph Hospital in Bangor.
Crews from the DEP and a hazardous materials clean up company are at the house.
A DEP spokesperson tells TV5 they estimate less than 50 gallons of oil was spilled.
Crews are digging up the contaminated dirt and say it could take two or three days for the smell to dissipate.
The family says Dead River Company, which owns Webber Energy, is paying to have them stay some where else right now.
A company spokesperson says Dead River is looking into what caused the spill and working with the DEP on the clean-up.