{"id":3618,"date":"2025-10-16T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3618\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:00:10","slug":"heavy-smoke-found-in-fire-at-bensalem-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3618\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Smoke Found In Fire At Bensalem Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 Heavy smoke was found in a fire at the Our Lady of Fatima church over the weekend, fire officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Bensalem Volunteer Fire Department responded at 12:17 p.m. Sunday to the 2900 block of Street Road for a building fire at Our Lady of Fatima church.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews reported smoke showing from the building with a fire found in a storage closet inside the church, with a possible extension to the roof area. <\/p>\n<p>Firefighters extinguished the fire, but crews found heavy smoke throughout the large church and school. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The roof and windows were temporarily secured on Sunday,&#8221; the church said. &#8220;Fantastic job by the <a attributionsrc=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/privacy_sandbox\/comet\/register\/source\/?xt=AZUvltU3wQ-S4zhllVZDAJ9m_N3EP3gFBvGTX53bh-2pWusP3nGAePHYSkDaqS3vkeTyAQObWMmxKZs03hbcZjf7fNNPUkUMVc0J5Nf0WdDrNR28xwEhtbtnCmX0W0I_WrM4ndilBXShqzJ4x1TAKhxYWhNwBiWUNShD3W6inUQeii1gxN4NWXDcPnBH4dYehlCerBmresL__phBRbHSHR62ZAprruDg5xvE7yo8MlOPSPSvPdvlbkwrBtsqFtWEHb-ylJj5k3Fwz_r6oyrWxr3_pUZGuZW2z30Re5K-jGsR08BV3SXi8SSPeeC75aMNCkw6NHd15LZVKabzCsqnKKKiA40zFXsklESCr01VlOq6vqZifpx9sXciOBzLPTUbAFjkN6I_8ZI0yYywTM2E3hsv9DdI6zu1UQRk6yTrXHJdEsCrg-LGYFR83wIqnn5G6gogaWgDo5d1heJbvNYDdpHc489ZDEZ8RP2InAps6SJvNOamVOW4uo6QjXjXGlgmOaUDONxg9w_x2bWQttYdfoK0Wlgpax1fWtlymwx9UQItY8n20HFVrgJztfLx8qxJ_je_VKzYJA9esG_S4ZYux0yiAwtz0OApelrz0ErotiYqLE0WXWGErxV5ZTTz6DEJrV7xg6YYscA_fMWMn_Unbm8Ofb1AKJmOwsSG0kVp_jlvN1D7_uz7jjxmkdFthxCID32CQMUHc4rFGHzwNVE-7JiMhchi9YAERsCSx52vcX0iHPQ3iotre_2kC5exZV6xFnxA4bH3-Ojiqf-b-uMVyFjhFcUcAx4Ahztu1CCVRtq-VzuQTs4Td59PkEyenXGiw2GFCkdmEbh_tSH2a3aOk9dYZbfkTutcEailnWDUogbOHdBDY-ZREs74WzxR_qMSTu6Ft0GpC7CH3OuJdV-8syNgRe6ymAzrTyXm6MIL_4FqbgmualtuS1YJoqoO-__CwDd18EKwbdPFWM29L1Q2XeY5SDkbcMtu-weY2_nQVUEUw_3FIIJramJ1A-MpJdJOPWJyTFhtRaxzk27TghQXkdDlzQRe72_D_pcyYLKmNafF8ki1e5ViiKaQy--7SKCqQZ2vd_OMUO_poCMAawdBaboGpw0a8Pp4SgRvTHkZbDSqhr_Ht_1kp9JCtO8gOQG_Ut1dNuarsLGYD-tV7mJyBeV0EZ8qSFa3hyONtc3TS_7fT-m7A6m4vCuBGSOznq7g7x54VSmEcg-uso37TDux8AEiWgExKDoOXNd6E2AEnLx7VBbhXdF4HI3clyaIbKUIZv604J91hwDx0V5pvYvK_PJSmYU0mB-6BSpN2-mHBgkvjol9Y90VjHeSq8eUtXDKxaZbiG7TJG3g-wknbPsF9V9e0x0XpRgD6HruA3VKl0VeAZ9IiqxO-fa1EUKp8-t3YhHxwlHjbLlEAuRsQTilu8-JKUgLQu6U22gT1Z0XoctIQoclAhZv-8pHVEMJvJNuSzcUxkkrMidfYbEd2savYsJGeY0RNtvH5LiWGPAWavIzirtAbcABCl89jXxFd9s9esLL9Y3M4ESUV4kFP2Nzijb4DydilWcsEjDx9pQDdN6HgX4VJpwUH5Dcv46jNf672bpiT3UcvL7sFfgQWxsFSAUoHKV3rZPDAHyaUjB_LuC89csQ8UgWvrks2dyIOcQrgrn3JBl_agm394zWq-HhfdGfDiET-Vx9D13jPOi-sK6J4PL26kxXvWFU5n7_Q0vo0TqXhsrmbMhVKtnB3TyINcKoGnKNdz-mmuf0R_pZ6wE0TSXruPM1wGe692gp4zayLckcj7OsBepSvU3D1UBaQbpFcyxvY-sS4IS59ozmTgD2HlEHt_za4jHXqDAqDIxsqbZV514gYswlrtPbrdQa6lasyfRCgRXybupA-oNBclP7nuao9vO3fucLQSHNiFXYIyeU3xRCoM64ax_oR7Bz0eYhzIssatiwxMnYKiB5lXmPdU9L7mhg7-sxx-YCrI3G3toqoP-8R3WHoKQUy4Q60WNo\" class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n x18oe1m7 x1sy0etr xstzfhl x972fbf x10w94by x1qhh985 x14e42zd x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 x3ct3a4 xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xkrqix3 x1sur9pj x1fey0fg x1s688f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NFD65?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZXR_Q4FSG2rtaHPkt_V0dDZxlEYUOO2HqykYjMCONJ83PDgjoxMXqdThpxhL_W3HN0ymT-ojH-LOjcqla_BL2o-nit8S_Oidz51dECt_bEeUvV4a4eOzULjY5AG7nvrPYAxyM9d05mAA6L5FWWkKyHjPKMk0hThG9xmcAG1uKzdDysBUYIHsIn7DXmHfyVb_IU&amp;__tn__=-%5DK-R\" role=\"link\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bensalem Volunteer Fire Department &#8211; Station 65<\/a> responding and preventing what could have been a much worse tragedy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-image=\"1586961-1757334745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ben fire.jpg\" data- \/><\/p>\n<p>(Bensalem Volunteer Fire Department)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 Heavy smoke was found in a fire at the Our Lady of Fatima church&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":{"0":"post-3618","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\/3618","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=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}