{"id":68886,"date":"2025-12-23T21:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/68886\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T21:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:40:18","slug":"gas-explosion-at-a-pennsylvania-nursing-home-traps-people-inside-authorities-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/68886\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas explosion at a Pennsylvania nursing home traps people inside, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">BRISTOL, Pa. \u2014 There was a gas explosion reported Tuesday at a nursing home just outside Philadelphia and people are believed to be trapped inside, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cWe understand that there are people trapped inside,\u201d said Ruth Miller, a Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Bucks County officials notified the agency of an explosion before 3 p.m. at the Silver Lake nursing home in Bristol Township, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) northeast of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRISTOL, Pa. \u2014 There was a gas explosion reported Tuesday at a nursing home just outside Philadelphia and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36430,10923,197,36428,36404,3891,13402,5958,36405,36429,36406,36431,36432,28,36427,36426,30,29,36401,36402],"class_list":{"0":"post-68886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-bristol-township","10":"tag-bucks-county","11":"tag-bucks-county-explosion","12":"tag-bucks-county-nursing-home-explosion","13":"tag-explosion","14":"tag-gas-explosion","15":"tag-nursing-home","16":"tag-nursing-home-explosion","17":"tag-nursing-home-explosion-bucks-county-pennsylvania","18":"tag-nursing-home-explosion-pennsylvania","19":"tag-pa-explosion","20":"tag-pa-gas-explosion","21":"tag-pennsylvania","22":"tag-pennsylvania-emergency-management","23":"tag-pennsylvania-explosion","24":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","25":"tag-pennsylvania-news","26":"tag-pennsylvania-nursing-home","27":"tag-pennsylvania-nursing-home-explosion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68886","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=68886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}