ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Coca-Cola Park has two nights of patriotic festivities scheduled for this holiday weekend, though a severe storm delayed Friday night’s events. Across the region, extreme weather has shifted the focus away from traditional Independence Day celebrations, forcing several communities to alter their plans.<\/p>\n
In Bethlehem, the city’s Independence Day concert has been moved from Payrow Plaza to the indoor Ice House on River Street. The performance is scheduled for Saturday at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, organizers for Quakertown Community Day have taken extra precautions for Saturday’s daylong celebration. Volunteers have set up two cooling stations equipped with misting fans, and all vendor stations will supply water.<\/p>\n
At Coca-Cola Park, a total of 20,000 people are expected to attend events across Friday and Saturday nights. To combat the heat, attendees will be permitted to bring sealed plastic water bottles into the stadium for both events.<\/p>\n
“I think we’re prepared to handle the weather, the heat, as best we can,” said IronPigs President and General Manager Kurt Landes.<\/p>\n
Landes, who manages a staff of up to 350 employees and volunteers on event days, said team members will be actively monitoring the crowd for signs of heat stroke. Additional medical professionals have also been assigned to the stadium.<\/p>\n
“Any given night we have two EMS personnel on site,” Landes said. “Because of the heat, we have six EMS personnel on hand tonight, just in case.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Coca-Cola Park has two nights of patriotic festivities scheduled for this holiday weekend, though a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232],"class_list":["post-235160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235160","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=235160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}