{"id":4469,"date":"2025-10-16T18:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4469\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T18:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:41:15","slug":"large-brush-fire-battled-in-bensalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4469\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Brush Fire Battled In Bensalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014Fire crews battled a large brush fire in a wooded area in the township Tuesday afternoon as it was contained from nearby homes thanks to the help of residents.<\/p>\n<p>The Bensalem Volunteer Fire Department and mutual aid crews responded late Tuesday afternoon to a wooded area on Tremont Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials said the brush fire broke out between the CSX railroad tracks and SEPTA tracks.<\/p>\n<p>The brush fire then extended to a home on Ramble Road, fire officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials thanked local residents who helped and &#8220;knew the woods like the back of their hands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fire companies, including the Third District Volunteer Fire Company, were on the scene for an &#8220;extended length of time,&#8221; officials said.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" data-image=\"1586961-1741778419\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/brush1.jpg\" data- \/> <\/p>\n<p> (Bensalem Volunteer Fire Department)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014Fire crews battled a large brush fire in a wooded area in the township Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":{"0":"post-4469","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\/4469","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=4469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}