{"id":164494,"date":"2026-04-13T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/164494\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:58:07","slug":"loud-bang-investigated-in-bensalem-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/164494\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Loud Bang’ Investigated In Bensalem Township"},"content":{"rendered":"

BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 That loud bang residents may have heard on Sunday night was nothing to fear, police said.<\/p>\n

Bensalem Police said they were made aware of numerous social media reports about a “loud bang” heard around 8:30 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n

While the police department did not receive any calls from residents, police officers conducted a brief investigation to identify a possible source. <\/p>\n

That source turned out to be the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst conducting heavy weapons training, which included live mortar and howitzer fire. <\/p>\n

“This activity is a likely source of the noise reported in our area,” police said.<\/p>\n

Officers did not locate any related incidents within the township, and there is no cause for concern at this time.<\/p>\n

Residents who wish to stay informed about scheduled training activities can refer to the Joint Base Facebook page for updates and calendars by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 That loud bang residents may have heard on Sunday night was nothing to fear,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-164494","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\/164494","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=164494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}