{"id":264885,"date":"2026-08-13T22:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T22:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264885\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T22:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T22:48:10","slug":"potassium-iodide-tablets-distributed-to-protect-from-radiological-emergencies-upper-montgomery-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264885\/","title":{"rendered":"Potassium iodide tablets distributed to protect from radiological emergencies | Upper Montgomery County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>POTTSTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Health officials handed out free potassium iodide tablets in Montgomery County today.<\/p>\n<p>The tablets were available for anyone who lives, works, or goes to school within ten miles of the Limerick nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n<p>The 69 News crew spotted folks picking some up at the Health Center on King Street in Pottstown.<\/p>\n<p>The pills can help protect the thyroid gland against harmful radioactive iodine during radiological emergencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POTTSTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Health officials handed out free potassium iodide tablets in Montgomery County today. The tablets were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,34962,111879,200,111878,2303,111881,111880],"class_list":["post-264885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-emergency-preparedness","tag-limerick-nuclear-power-plant","tag-montgomery-county","tag-potassium-iodide","tag-public-health","tag-radiological-emergency","tag-thyroid-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264885","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=264885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}