{"id":128815,"date":"2026-03-03T22:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/128815\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T22:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:23:12","slug":"fire-in-bensalem-township-pennsylvania-leaves-56-year-old-woman-dead-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/128815\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire in Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania, leaves 56-year-old woman dead, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire in Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania, early Tuesday morning left a 56-year-old woman dead, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire happened at a house on the 2700 block of Bellview Drive in Bensalem Township at around 2:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>When crews arrived, heavy smoke was coming from the home, and they found the 56-year-old woman inside. Despite life-saving efforts by first responders, she was pronounced dead at the scene. Officials identified her as Christine Toal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A male resident at the home was taken to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital for evaluation and treatment, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crews placed the fire under control before it spread to nearby homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No firefighters or other first responders were injured during the blaze, according to officials. The fire is under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fire happened hours after another deadly fire in Bucks County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/bristol-pa-fire-dorrance-street\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bristol Borough<\/a>, a fire on the 300 block of Dorrance Street Monday night left a person dead. The cause of that fire is under investigation by the Bucks County Fire Marshal&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire in Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania, early Tuesday morning left a 56-year-old woman dead, officials said. The fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[191,197,422,5612,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-128815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-bensalem","9":"tag-bucks-county","10":"tag-fire","11":"tag-house-fire","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","14":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128815","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=128815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}