{"id":235087,"date":"2026-07-03T23:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T23:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235087\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T23:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T23:54:13","slug":"more-than-100-people-treated-for-heat-related-symptoms-at-pa-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235087\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 100 people treated for heat-related symptoms at Pa. event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 3 (UPI) &#8212; Authorities in Pennsylvania&#8217;s Berks County declared a mass casualty incident when more than 100 people waiting to see a train were treated for heat-related symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>A<a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2026\/07\/03\/delayed-big-boy-arrival-106-degree-heat-lead-to-mass-casualty-response-in-berks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> crowd of thousands gathered<\/a> Thursday afternoon at the Reading &amp; Blue Mountain Railroad Outer Station in Muhlenberg Township to glimpse Big Boy, the world&#8217;s largest steam-powered locomotive, which is currently on tour for America&#8217;s 250th anniversary celebrations.\n<\/p>\n<p>The train&#8217;s arrival was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/berks\/over-100-people-treated-for-heat-illness-in-muhlenberg-twp-after-big-boy-train-delays\/article_e853fd61-d864-4060-bc7f-3e19211e7a4a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">delayed for more than an hour<\/a> as local temperatures climbed to 106 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Berks County 911 started to receive 911 calls about 1:30 p.m., and ambulances and firefighters from surrounding counties were summoned to assist.<\/p>\n<p>More than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/more-than-100-treated-heat-related-emergencies-event-berks-county\/71812068\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">100 people were treated<\/a> for heat-related maladies, and 45 of those were transported to local hospitals. One patient went into cardiac arrest, but was resuscitated before being transported to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said children and the elderly made up the majority of those affected.<\/p>\n<p>Big Boy rolled through the station around 2:30 p.m., before continuing on toward Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 3 (UPI) &#8212; Authorities in Pennsylvania&#8217;s Berks County declared a mass casualty incident when more than 100&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,295,1562],"class_list":["post-235087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-top-stories","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235087","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=235087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}