{"id":75277,"date":"2026-01-01T02:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75277\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T02:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:51:07","slug":"oxygen-tank-explosion-sets-ambulance-ablaze-in-richland-twp-southeastern-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75277\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxygen tank explosion sets ambulance ablaze in Richland Twp. | Southeastern Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RICHLAND TWP., Pa. &#8211; Emergency crews in Bucks County faced some scary moments Wednesday evening when an ambulance transporting a patient caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>It happened just before 4:30 p.m. in the 1000 block of N. West End Boulevard (Route 309) in Richland Township.<\/p>\n<p>Richland Township Fire &amp; Rescue and West End Fire Company of Quakertown arrived to find a private transport ambulance fully engulphed, which crews quickly extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials say an onboard oxygen tank suffered a catastrophic failure during operations, causing an explosion.<\/p>\n<p>The crew of the ambulance and patient safely evacuated prior to fire department&#8217;s arrival. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RICHLAND TWP., Pa. &#8211; Emergency crews in Bucks County faced some scary moments Wednesday evening when an ambulance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2440,197,28,30,29,5758,12131,38788],"class_list":{"0":"post-75277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-ambulance","9":"tag-bucks-county","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","12":"tag-pennsylvania-news","13":"tag-quakertown","14":"tag-richland-township","15":"tag-west-end-fire-company"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75277","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=75277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}