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Follow 6abc on Google<\/p>\nRaw video: Chopper 6 was over a rescue scene in Bensalem, Pa. on June 12, 2018.<\/p>\n
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BENSALEM, Pa. — Officials say an electric shop vacuum caused the gas station explosion in Bucks County that killed one man and left another critically injured.<\/p>\n
Bensalem Fire and Rescue said Thursday that 63-year-old Joe Vigilante was using the vacuum to remove water from a vault surrounding one of the station’s 8,000-gallon gasoline tanks when the blast happened Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Crews recover body following explosion at Bensalem gas station: as seen on Action News at 11 p.m., June 13, 2018<\/p>\n
The blast buried Vigilante, who was the co-owner of the Bensalem gas station, and seriously burned part-time worker Frank Tomasiello.<\/p>\n
Vigilante’s body was recovered from the rubble late Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Rob Sponheimer tells The Inquirer that Vigilante often used the vacuum to clear the vault, and it’s unclear why Tuesday was any different.<\/p>\n Top Stories<\/p>\n The explosion has been ruled accidental.<\/p>\n Trapped worker’s body found after gas station explosion in Bensalem: Maggie Kent reports on Action News at 4 p.m., June 13, 2018<\/p>\n —— Copyright \u00a9 2026 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raw video: Chopper 6 was over a rescue scene in Bensalem, Pa. on June 12, 2018. WPVI Follow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[128561,191,128558,193,192,128559,194,36428,3891,128560,28,812,22085],"class_list":["post-315167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-128561","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-explosion","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-rescue","tag-bensalem-township","tag-bucks-county-explosion","tag-explosion","tag-explosion-in-bensalem","tag-pennsylvania","tag-rescue","tag-trapped"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315167","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=315167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793089270_469_19982415_102626-wpvi-walmart-shooting-arrest-5pm-video-vid.jpg\"\/)
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