Levittown apartment fire hurts two

Two injured in Levittown fire

A fire broke out early Saturday morning at a Bucks County apartment complex, sending two people to a hospital for minor injuries, authorities said.

The fire erupted at about 5:20 a.m. at the Foxwood Manor apartments, 2180 Veterans Highway in Levittown. It was extinguished shortly after 6 a.m., said Deputy Chief Robert Johnson of the William Penn Fire Company in Hulmeville.

A man and a woman who lived in one apartment went to a hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation, he said.

Johnson said the fire affected four apartments. All residents in the complex were evacuated.

The cause of the fire was under investigation, he said. - Julie Shaw

After 200 sickened, Ursinus tries to pinpoint source of illness

The Montgomery County Health Department on Saturday posted the report of its latest inspection of Ursinus College's kitchen - a Thursday visit that found one minor violation, allowing the Wismer Dining Hall to reopen - as attempts to pinpoint the source of widespread stomach illness continued.

More than 200 students reported gastrointestinal symptoms between Tuesday and Friday, and university spokesman Tom Yencho said Saturday that he believed two or three more had come up overnight. Twenty-two students had been treated at area hospitals earlier in the week; none were admitted, and most students are getting better.

The symptoms, including vomiting and diarrhea, suggest a food-borne illness, but finding the source requires health officials to determine what those who were stricken had in common, and then confirm the presence of a virus through laboratory testing. So far the main thing they are known to have in common is that they are students.

After an inspector found 17 violations - none of them necessarily related to the illnesses - on Wednesday, the university in Collegeville voluntarily shut the kitchen for sanitizing. Classes, which were canceled Thursday and Friday, will resume on Monday.

- Don Sapatkin