Firefighters found an elderly couple dead inside their Bucks County home early Wednesday.
Crews arrived around 12:30 a.m. to find the two-story home along Kings Lane in Bensalem fully engulfed in flames, Bensalem Township Battalion Chief Rob Sponheimer said.
After about an hour firefighters had the blaze under control but it was too late for the couple, identified by police as 89-year-old Albert Serventi and his 86-year-old wife Eileen.
Neighbors in two homes were evacuated but uninjured in the blaze, firefighters said.
The blaze appeared to be accidental, caused by a candle, firefighters said. Power was out in the area Tuesday night and a neighbor saw a candle burning in the home prior to power being restored late Tuesday, firefighters said.
