{"id":234042,"date":"2026-07-02T19:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234042\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T19:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:29:29","slug":"multiple-heat-related-injuries-at-union-pacific-big-boy-event-in-berks-county-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234042\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple heat-related injuries at Union Pacific Big Boy event in Berks County, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple heat-related injuries have been reported at a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/union-pacific-big-boy-locomotive-philadelphia-july-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Union Pacific Big Boy<\/a>\u00a0whistle stop event in Berks County, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Chopper 3 was over the scene at Muhlenberg Park in Berks County, showing a large EMS presence and a crowd of people.<\/p>\n<p>Medics were seen caring for people who may have been impacted by the heat. At least one person was taken out on a stretcher. Several ambulances were on scene and tents and cooling buses were seen in the area.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/big-boy-train.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"big-boy-train.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no word at this time on how many people have been impacted or their conditions. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A large group of people had gathered at the train station to watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/big-boy-north-east-pennsylvania\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Big Boy historic train roll<\/a> through the area. The train rolled through and is on its way to its next stop, scheduled in Pottstown.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of Berks County are seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/extreme-heat-philadelphia-thursday-july-2-heat-wave\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">103-degree temperatures<\/a> and feel-like temps worse than that as the region is in the middle of a dangerous heat wave.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple heat-related injuries have been reported at a Union Pacific Big Boy\u00a0whistle stop event in Berks County, Pennsylvania.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[349,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-234042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-berks-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234042","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=234042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}