{"id":232136,"date":"2026-06-30T20:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232136\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T20:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:44:09","slug":"shelter-in-place-issued-in-bensalem-after-freight-train-derailment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232136\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelter-in-place issued in Bensalem after freight train derailment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">BENSALEM, Pa. &#8211; A shelter-in-place order has been issued in Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania after a freight train derailed Tuesday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/bensalem-train-derailment.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The derailment happened around 2 p.m. between Street Road and the Neshaminy Falls train station. 5-10 freight cars reportedly derailed and were left strewn across the tracks.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities in Bensalem issued a shelter-in-place order for residents as police, fire, emergency medical services and hazmat teams responded to the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials say the contents of the train cars that derailed are still being assessed. Residents are urged to shelter in place and stay away from the scene in the meantime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from Bensalem Township Police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/bucks-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bucks County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM, Pa. &#8211; A shelter-in-place order has been issued in Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania after a freight train derailed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194,197,592,139,539,593],"class_list":["post-232136","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-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232136","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=232136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}