{"id":129121,"date":"2026-03-04T07:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129121\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T07:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:04:08","slug":"fatal-house-fire-in-bensalem-overnight-delaware-valley-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129121\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal House Fire In Bensalem Overnight \u2013 Delaware Valley News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 3, 2026<\/p>\n<p>by Alex Lloyd Gross<\/p>\n<p>Bensalem authorities were called to a house fire on the 2700 block of  Bellview Drive about 2:45AM.  When fire crews arrived, they found a house with heavy smoke pour from the windows and eaves. A male outside told firefighters a female was still inside.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters went inside and found Christine Toal  inside at the kitchen. They immediately started life saving efforts but were not successful. According to Police spokes person Glenn Vandegrift, Toal was p-pronounced dead at the scene of the fire.  There were no other injuries besides the male who met fire fighters outside. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Alex-Gross-Advertisement-1-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46953 size-full\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital for treatment of injuries he sustained. The cause of fire has yet to be determined and is under investigation by Bensalem authorities.  <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 3, 2026 by Alex Lloyd Gross Bensalem authorities were called to a house fire on the 2700&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-129121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129121","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=129121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}