{"id":79626,"date":"2025-12-23T22:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/79626\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T22:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:38:09","slug":"nursing-home-explodes-multiple-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/79626\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing Home Explodes, Multiple Injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/levittownnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20251223_2012367782.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"366\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-225459 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20251223_2012367782.jpg\"  data- data-eio-rwidth=\"580\" data-eio-rheight=\"366\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20251223_2012367782.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-225459 lazy\"  data- data-eio=\"l\"\/><\/a>Credit: Tom Sofield\/LevittownNow.com<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews are racing to locate missing persons following a large explosion at a nursing home Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Several people were trapped and the building in danger of collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Flames broke out in the wreckage around 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisements<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healingyourway.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"242\" width=\"580\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-225051 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Healing-Your-Way.gif\" decoding=\"async\" data-eio-rwidth=\"580\" data-eio-rheight=\"242\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"242\" width=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Healing-Your-Way.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-225051 lazy\" data-eio=\"l\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Responders received reports of the blast at the Silver Lake Nursing Home on Tower Road next to Lower Bucks Hospital at approximately 2:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/levittownnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20251223_1953521802.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"367\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-225458 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20251223_1953521802.jpg\"  data- data-eio-rwidth=\"580\" data-eio-rheight=\"367\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20251223_1953521802.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-225458 lazy\"  data- data-eio=\"l\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By 3 p.m., a massive mutual aid response was underway as fire companies and ambulance crews from across the county arrived at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>Advertisements<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flo-gutters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-222839 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766529489_978_Flo.png\" decoding=\"async\" data-eio-rwidth=\"300\" data-eio-rheight=\"285\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766529489_978_Flo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-222839 lazy\" data-eio=\"l\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Search and rescue operations remained active as of 3:05 p.m., with officials reporting multiple injuries and an unknown number of patients and staff trapped inside the wreckage.<\/p>\n<p>The force of the explosion caused significant structural damage to the facility. <\/p>\n<p>First responders and police officers were seen using any available stretchers and  to pull victims from the debris.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors and family members arrived at the facility in tears, seeking information on the whereabouts of their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not yet released the total number of injuries or confirmed the cause of the explosion<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" class=\"avatar avatar-48 photo lazyload\" height=\"48\" width=\"48\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/432baf0f177d2a6d218d8492a113b3c6a17fe47f9601b2ac62575a569d4dea6d\"  data-eio-rwidth=\"48\" data-eio-rheight=\"48\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/432baf0f177d2a6d218d8492a113b3c6a17fe47f9601b2ac62575a569d4dea6d\"  class=\"avatar avatar-48 photo lazy\" height=\"48\" width=\"48\" decoding=\"async\" data-eio=\"l\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-post-author__name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/levittownnow.com\/author\/tomsofield\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tom Sofield<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-post-author__bio\">Tom Sofield has covered news in Bucks County for 12 years for both newspaper and online publications. Tom\u2019s reporting has appeared locally, nationally, and internationally across several mediums. He is proud to report on news in the county where he lives and to have created a reliable publication that the community deserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Tom Sofield\/LevittownNow.com Emergency crews are racing to locate missing persons following a large explosion at a nursing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-79626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79626","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=79626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}