{"id":297711,"date":"2026-10-01T16:20:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297711\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:20:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:20:43","slug":"victim-idd-in-fatal-bensalem-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297711\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim ID&#8217;d In Fatal Bensalem House Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Bucks County Coroner Patti Campi has identified the victim killed in the house fire on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Oct 1, 2026 9:04 AM EDT | Updated Oct 1, 2026 11:23 AM EDT<\/p>\n<p>BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 The victim of a fatal house fire on Wednesday afternoon in the township&#8217;s Andalusia section has been identified.<\/p>\n<p>Bucks County Coroner Patti Campi said that 72-year-old William Egenolf of Bensalem was the fire victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-subscribe\">\n  <a class=\"article-subscribe-link\" href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/bensalem\/subscribe?utm_source=amp&amp;utm_campaign=subscribe&amp;utm_medium=mobile&amp;utm_term=subscribe_in_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Campi said an autopsy was conducted on Wednesday with the cause of death being smoke and soot inhalation.<\/p>\n<p>She said the man&#8217;s death was accidental.<\/p>\n<p>The Bensalem Township Police and Fire Departments responded to the house fire at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The cause and origin of the fire remain under investigation by Bensalem Fire Investigators and Bensalem Police Detectives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts are with the victim&#8217;s family, friends, and loved ones during this difficult time,&#8221; authorities said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bucks County Coroner Patti Campi has identified the victim killed in the house fire on Wednesday afternoon. Oct&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-297711","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\/297711","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=297711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}