To some people, a broken dishwasher or clogged drain is their idea of a Thanksgiving Day disaster.

One year ago, six-thousand homes in Austintown, Boardman, Canfield and Youngstown spent most of Turkey Day without electricity, until the FirstEnergy restored power later that night.

But to really find out what can ruin the holiday, you have to talk to someone who was celebrating the day exactly thirty years ago in the Village of McDonald.

On Thanksgiving Day 1986, firefighters were sent to a kitchen fire in the village at around noon.

By the time they reached the home, neighbors were running to first responders saying their house was on fire too.

House fires began popping up in kitchens all over McDonald.

One firefighter recalls that someone told him that their turkey blew out of the oven.

What had happened was that a gas line regulator malfunctioned surging gas through the lines into homes throughout the village.

Firefighters called in from several surrounding communities spent the day battling fires at fifty homes and one business.

Once the gas was turned off and the smoke cleared, emergency workers were thankful that no one had been killed or injured.