{"id":301664,"date":"2026-10-07T15:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301664\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T15:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:48:27","slug":"few-details-released-in-fatal-house-fire-in-bensalem-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301664\/","title":{"rendered":"Few details released in fatal house fire in Bensalem Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Sept. 30, 2026, 2:46 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Bensalem police are expected to release more information about a fatal house fire in the township&#8217;s Andalusia section Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">One Bensalem resident died in the fire, which was reported in the 1100 block of Whittier Avenue around 1:30 p.m. on Sept. 29, according to Bensalem Fire Rescue Chief Mark Antozzeski. No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crimewatch.net\/us\/pa\/bucks\/bensalem-pd\/15488\/post\/fatal-house-fire-under-investigation-bensalem\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Authorities confirmed the death<\/a> , but did not release the name or age, or gender of the victim as of Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:399px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791388107_115_92025175007-whittier-1198-fire-after-dh-004.JPG\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bensalem police confirm one person died in a fatal fire Sept. 29, 2026 in the 1100 block of Whittier Avenue in the township's Andalusia section. The house was left boarded up Sept. 30, 2026.\"\/>More Bensalem News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillyburbs.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2026\/09\/29\/bucks-county-northbrook-gun-coworkers-crime-police-bensalem-trevose-arrest\/92007580007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\">Bensalem police allege man pulled gun on coworkers<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The cause and origin of the first remain under investigation by the Bensalem Fire investigators and the police department, Antozzeski said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Bucks County Coroner&#8217;s Office did not immediately respond Sept. 30 to an email seeking information about the autopsy. Police are expected to release more details later Wednesday, Sgt. Matthew Malcolm said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">(This story has been updated to add new information and photos.)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_gl gnt_em__el\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phillyburbs.com\/picture-gallery\/news\/2026\/09\/30\/bensalem-fire-leaves-one-dead-in-andalusia\/92025160007\/\" data-t-l=\"\u2691g:l|l|c|view gallery:inline promo\" aria-label=\"View Gallery - Photos: Andalusia fire leaves one dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791388107_758_92025177007-whittier-1198-fire-after-dh-001.JPG\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Crime and Courts reporter Jo Ciavaglia can be reached at jciavaglia@gannett.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Sept. 30, 2026, 2:46 p.m. ET Bensalem police are expected to release more information about a fatal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[596,191,193,192,194,82610,3004,3005,1864,1748,651,1177,648,535],"class_list":["post-301664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-accessmetered","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township","tag-sourcebucks-county-courier-times","tag-sstsnewsfire","tag-sstsnfire","tag-tagaccidents-disasters","tag-tagdeath-tragedy","tag-taglocal-news","tag-tagnews","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301664","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=301664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}