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Today is Saturday, July 19th.
29th week of the year
200th day of the year.
Today in the EOC...
Daily log:
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10:33
ALERT: Dauphin County is experiencing a TOTAL 911 AND NON-EMERGENCY PHONE FAILURE.
To report an emergency go to local fire station or call:
717-215-9637
717-210-6051
717-215-9507
717-210-6823
717-215-9132
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What's being monitored:
- 2017 Asian lonhorned tick (Haemaphysalis longicornis) is an invasive spiecies spreading throughout Pennsylvania and other states. Pa. Environmental Protection article, PSU Ext. article, PSU Ext. Ticks & Disease. This tick can infect humans with a virus that causes severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome. Which may lead to a fatal hemorrhagic fever. This virus has not yet been found in any of the ticks in the U.S.
- 2025-06-30 Harmful algal bloom: Lake Somerset, Avoid Contact
- 2025-06-30 Harmful algal bloom: Tamarack Lake, Avoid Contact
- 2025-07-18 Philadelphia health department warns of mosquito-borne West Nile virus. PSU Extension, CDC
- Three Mile Island nuclear power plant license wasn't renewed due to being past its service life. Now the plant is being put back into service for a Microsoft data center. It wasn't safe before, but now it is? Send any info about this to PaEMT and if you live within about a 100 mile radius please consider getting a Safecast radiation detetor and putting online with the Safecast network.
- Jamestown Canyon Virus and West Nile Virus can both infect humans and both have been detected in multiple counties. page on this issue. Pa. Dept. of Environmental Protection
- 2025-07-18 Bills in the Pa. Legislature regarding EMS. I hope to post a write-up, within the next few weeks.
- 2025-07-19 10:40 Dauphin County communications center has a total outage of both 911 and non-emergency phone numbers. Last week (Saturday July 12th) there was a partial outage of 911 statewide.
If you know of any issues or events that could affect EMTs, EMS, or medical transportation in any way (in Pennsylvania), please contact the EOC (eoc@paemt.org or paemt.15 on Signal).
Links
Pennsylvania Dashboards
Hospital status
Weather | Air Quality | Roads & Traffic | Aircraft | Daily Satellite Imagery (zoom.earth)
Infectious Diseases | Additional Dashboards from the Pa. Dept. of Health
CDC Dashboards
Respiratory illness threat data channel | COVID | Nat'l Wastewater Surveillance
Crime Maps
Pennsylvania (crimegrade.org)
Pennsylvania (crimewatch.org)
Other areas of Pennsylvania (crimemapping.com)
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Flood Maps
Pa flood mapping
FEMA link 1, FEMA link 2
Other hazards maps
Pipelines
Power plants map
List of operating nuclear power reactors in the U.S.
ExploreNuclear.com map