Toxic mushrooms” sicken 11 people, including children, in Central Pennsylvania town – CBS 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 Pennsylvania State Police were also called to the scene,
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. Responders only found 10 patients at the scene and later learned a member of the family walked half a mile down the road to a phone booth and called 911, WHP reported.
