Nursing Home Safety

Emergency crews responded around 2:15 p.m. to two explosions and a fire at a Bristol Township nursing home — variously identified as Bristol Health & Rehab Center/Silver Lake — that killed two people (a resident and a staff member, identified by the coroner as 52-year-old Muthoni Nduthu), left 19 hospitalized and prompted a large multi‑agency rescue and evacuation that ultimately accounted for and relocated all residents. PECO crews were on site investigating reports of a gas odor and had shut off gas and electric service; state utility and safety investigators are probing whether a gas leak caused the blasts but have not yet confirmed a definitive cause.