BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, Pa. - Officials with the Bensalem Township Department of Public Safety say an accidental fire inside a home left a man critically injured.
Authorities say 911 dispatchers got a call from Thomas Risich, a 76-year-old man who lives on the 700 block of Kings Lane, about a fire in his living room.
According to officials, Risich told dispatchers he was wheelchair bound and he was in a bathroom in the back of the home with no way to escape.
Bensalem Police and firefighters from multiple agencies responded to the scene and saw heavy smoke coming from the home, per authorities.