{"id":205845,"date":"2026-05-30T00:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205845\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T00:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:10:07","slug":"ice-cream-truck-fire-at-delaware-river-park-in-philadelphia-leaves-driver-with-minor-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205845\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice cream truck fire at Delaware River park in Philadelphia leaves driver with minor burns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire ripped through an ice cream truck at a park along Philadelphia&#8217;s Delaware River waterfront Friday afternoon, leaving the driver with minor burns, emergency officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out at Penn Treaty Park around 5:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DY8JRRzthAm\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Video submitted to CBS News Philadelphia<\/a> showes the flames engulfing the truck as thick black smoke rose into the air and billowed above the park. The video also showed a man with scorched clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency officials said the driver was taken to a hospital with minor burns.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was placed under control just before 5:30 p.m., emergency officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire ripped through an ice cream truck at a park along Philadelphia&#8217;s Delaware River waterfront Friday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12475,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-205845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-delaware-river","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205845","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=205845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}