{"id":2561,"date":"2025-10-15T21:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2561\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T21:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:37:06","slug":"man-2-pets-dead-in-bensalem-house-fire-pd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2561\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 2 Pets Dead In Bensalem House Fire: PD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 A man and his two pets were killed in a house fire Tuesday afternoon, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews responded to the 3000 block of Gilbert Drive for a house fire at 1:52 p.m. Tuesday, but found dark soot on the windows instead of fire and smoke when they arrived, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters from Bensalem Fire Rescue and the Bensalem Volunteer Fire Department entered the front door and found a resident dead in a chair in the living room. <\/p>\n<p> The victim was identified as 77-year-old Allan Schoppy. A pet dog and cat were also found dead inside the home.<\/p>\n<p>Fire investigators said the fire inside the home was extinguished by the man and may have happened overnight. <\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is under investigation, but it does not appear suspicious, fire officials and police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 A man and his two pets were killed in a house fire Tuesday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":{"0":"post-2561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bensalem","8":"tag-bensalem","9":"tag-bensalem-headlines","10":"tag-bensalem-news","11":"tag-bensalem-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561","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=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}