Three counties’ worth of first responders were present.
The Delta-Cardiff Volunteer Company Station 57 emergency medical professionals were called in to help with a “mass casualty incident.”
According to a Facebook post by Station 57, units were notified that 11 individuals in Peach Bottom Township had eaten deadly mushrooms and were sick.
According to the post, emergency personnel from the counties of York, Lancaster, and Harford were sent out.
According to WPMT-TV, Delta-Cardiff Fire Chief Laura Taylor stated that the adults and children were taken to WellSpan York Hospital in York and that their conditions were stable.
The station said that the Pennsylvania State Police were also dispatched to the private property.
One of the family members had gone half a mile down Burke Road in search of a phone booth so they could contact 911, Station 57 informed WHP-TV. The family member claimed that after eating supper of wild mushrooms they gathered in the woods, he and the other ten people got sick.
The Pennsylvania state capital, Harrisburg, is located 56 miles southeast of Peach Bottom Township, which is close to the Maryland state boundary.
