{"id":277140,"date":"2026-09-02T07:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277140\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T07:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:16:12","slug":"severe-storms-bring-down-trees-across-region-halt-to-bruno-mars-concert-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277140\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe storms bring down trees across region, halt to Bruno Mars concert in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MANTUA TWP., N.J. (WPVI) &#8212; Severe storms swept through the region Tuesday night, bringing down trees, causing power outages and prompting a tornado warning in parts of South Jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Damage was reported in Wilmington, Delaware, where trees fell along Maryland Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In South Jersey, Gloucester County officials said emergency crews responded to multiple reports of downed trees, trees falling onto homes and other structures, downed power lines, power outages and at least some reported collapsed structures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Action News has learned that two residents were briefly trapped after a tree crashed into their home in Mantua Township. It was not immediately clear whether either person was injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A tornado warning was issued around 9:20 p.m. for portions of Burlington County. However, there were no immediate reports of a tornado touchdown or any damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The severe weather also disrupted a concert by Bruno Mars in South Philadelphia. Concertgoers were temporarily evacuated while the storm passed through the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials in Gloucester County are urging residents to stay home if possible as crews continue cleanup and assess storm damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No serious injuries had been reported as of Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANTUA TWP., N.J. (WPVI) &#8212; Severe storms swept through the region Tuesday night, bringing down trees, causing power&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116137,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-277140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-116137","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277140","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=277140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}