'Toxic mushrooms' sicken 11 people, including children, in Peach Bottom Township

  • Source: KDKA-TV CBS 2 Pittsburgh
  • Published: 10/14/2024 12:00 AM

Nearly a dozen people were taken to a hospital in Central Pennsylvania on Friday night after eating "toxic mushrooms," a local fire company said. The "mass casualty" incident happened on the 200 block of Burke Road in Peach Bottom Township, York County. The township is along the western bank of the Susquehanna River and close to the Maryland border. "Units were advised that 11 people had ingested toxic mushrooms and were all ill," the Delta-Cardiff Volunteer Fire Company, Station 57 said on Facebook. Ambulance units were called to the scene from York and Lancaster counties in Pennsylvania and Harford County, Maryland. Six ambulances took patients to a nearby hospital, the fire company said. The fire company told the station the patients were members of an Amish family who ate wild mushrooms they found in the woods and became ill.



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