{"id":128597,"date":"2026-03-03T18:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/128597\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T18:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:06:10","slug":"woman-killed-man-rescued-following-house-fire-in-bensalem-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/128597\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed, man rescued following house fire in Bensalem, Pa."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A woman was killed and a man was rescued following a house fire in Bucks County early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Flames broke out around 2:45 a.m. on the 2700 block of Bellview Drive in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters arrived to find heavy smoke and flames coming from the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials say a man was waiting outside, telling firefighters there was a woman trapped in the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters pulled her out from near the kitchen, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She has been identified as 56-year-old Christine Toal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man was taken to Jefferson Torresdale hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His identity has not been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was killed and a man was rescued following a house fire in Bucks County early Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194,197,59856,813,48026,28],"class_list":["post-128597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township","tag-bucks-county","tag-christine-toal","tag-firefighters","tag-heavy-smoke","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}