Towers & siting

These towers “5 and or 6 g” towers give me headaches, I ache all over (like flu like symptoms) almost everyday, I have difficulty sleeping, and now I have constant buzzing in my head!

Thank you for the opportunity to tell my personal story about how I'm affected by RF radiation. I’m 69, a white female, & have been chemically sensitive for 40 years. I started noticing electro-magnetic sensitivity 10-15 years ago. I keep my cell phone in Airplane Mode. We turned off the Wi-Fi in our home & hard-wired my computer. I wear RF-shielding gloves while working on the PC to protect my fingertips from burning. On July 9, 2018, the Pacific Power Company came to our home to install an electrical Smart Meter. Minutes later, I was standing in my kitchen & the new Smart Meter was 6 feet away on the other side of the house wall. My heart started fluttering but I shrugged it off. Suddenly, my heart JUMPED around in my chest radically. I ran out of the house. My husband called Pacific Power, asking them to remove the new meter but they said the employee who had just installed it & was still in the neighborhood wasn’t qualified to uninstall it. We waited 3 days for the electric company to come. I was still healing from a double mastectomy & my health felt fragile. Finally, my husband removed the Smart Meter himself, replacing it with an analog meter he had access to. My heart continued fluttering for a week afterwards & my doctor sent me to the ER. No permanent damage to my heart was found. The ER doctor suggested I was having panic attacks but I knew better. A few weeks later, the electric company finally got back to us &, discovering the Smart Meter had been removed, were livid. We were threatened & fined. When we refused to allow them to remove & replace the analog meter, they cut off the electricity to our home. The food in our freezer had begun to thaw by the time we realized our electricity was out. Feeling very coerced, we agreed to let Pacific Power install what they assured us was a “Non-RF-emitting” meter. They had sworn the Smart Meter was safe, too, but we seemed to have little choice. We felt very bullied. In addition to a fine, we had to pay $139 to officially uninstall the Smart Meter & switch to a non-RF-emitting meter. Since that time, we’ve also paid a monthly fee that customers with a Smart Meter do not have to pay. The non-RF-emitting meter hasn’t caused me any further problems with cardiac arrhythmia. How is it that we have to pay extra money to keep a life-threatening device off the wall of our home? I hope someday to be legally validated & reimbursed by the Pacific Power company for the trauma, pain & suffering they've caused me. I’ve also had problems with RF sensitivity at church since Smart Meters were installed. The metal fillings in my teeth seem to attract RF & exposure makes my jaw ache. I get a sharp headache at my temples & brain fog from too much RF. I’ve stopped wearing metal, especially near my head & heart. I’ve purchased faraday cages for two of the Smart Meters at church so I can socialize & attend baptisms. The effect of too much RF exposure is delayed & hard to notice until I lie down in quietness & feel my limbs buzzing. The buzzing is subtle while I’m busy. I start groaning & feeling cranky. When I finally lie down to rest, the buzzing becomes very apparent & uncomfortable. It takes hours to resolve. A new cell tower was proposed this summer to be built next to my church of 43 years. I spoke to our county’s planning commission in opposition to the new tower. I was shocked to learn that federal law prohibits the planning commission from considering any health objections to the approval of a new cell tower… WHAT?!! Health concerns are the most critical reason not to build a cell tower near schools, hospitals, churches, & in residential areas. I hope that law is repealed ASAP. By God’s grace, the new next-door cell tower was not approved. For folks with electro-magnetic sensitivity like me, “progress” in this modern world is scary. How long will we be able to find safe places to live? My heart goes out to people who are being irradiated by RF & don’t feel the adverse effects so that they act to protect themselves. I trust it’s just a matter of time before those in power decide to prioritize public health over technological growth & profit. I’ve been able to build a relatively safe environment for myself here at home. In a healthy environment, I feel strong & sassy. I can tolerate excursions into town for appointments & groceries. Sometimes, though, after a long day of exposures to chemicals & RF radiation, I become so drowsy that driving is dangerous. The after-effects of heavy exposure cause me to almost pass out. I usually recover from these exposures by falling into bed & sleeping it off but I have to get home safely first. What a waste of human energy, focus, & productivity these environmental toxins are causing. I’m delighted you’re taking a serious look at these things & how they’re affecting people, animals, & plants. Thank you for listening & good luck!

Yes my face is constantly tingling feels like something is crawling under my skin. I live a stones throw away. I have headaches and feel so strange. I am on no medications that these would cause side after effects from. It’s the towers and the spraying in the air and it’s in and on all of us.

This is personal and family related as well as science too. The Environmental Working Group has also put out a report on RF/EMF. EMF cause my ears to ring. If I walk closer to a router the sound gets louder and if I walk away it will decrease or go away if I am far enough away for long enough. They also give me sinus infections. If I sleep with EMF's I have sinus infections and if I tent in the woods away from EMF they go away. I have repeated this process several times. When they put a smart meter on our house my kids started having ticks a lot, serveral times a minute and when we called and opted out of the smart meter the ticks stopped. I had tight muscles when they installed the smart meter but that went away after they changed the meter. We did not repeat this process. I have also seen family members kids and babies that had OCD much worse with RF/EMF. When it was removed or reduced it got a lot better. I believe that mast cell activation from the RF/EMF could be one of the reason for this issue. As Far as solutions I would like to see building regulations changed so no plug-ins have to be installed in bedroom and Cell tower are placed at least half a mile from homes, churches, and schools. The EU estimates that 2 to 3 percent of people have EHS (electromagnetic hypersensitivity syndrome). They have limits and the right to have your work checked and for the employer to reduce exposer. RF/EMF cages and bags can be used in rooms and offices without stopping wifi but reducing how much RF/EMF a person gets. Public spaces should not have high levels of RF/EMF because you are limiting the public that is sensitive to those spaces. Opt-out should be a mandated by law. I am wanting to move to a new town but they have no opt-out. How are my kids going to live in a house with no opt-out? Also opt-out should not carry a extra fee as we had no smart meters for decades and had no extra fee so this seems like you are punishing those who are sensitive to this when they had no control over it. DOI: 10.1080/09553000500303518 DOI: 10.1556/ABiol.56.2005.1-2.5 DOI: 10.1002/bem.22219 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.113851

EMFs have given me issues many different times, long before I made the connection that that is what was causing my symptoms. I will give you a few examples. A couple of years ago we had a dog and bought a shock collar for her. My husband installed the device that sends out the perimeter signal in our laundry room, which happens to be on the other side of the wall from the head of our bed. I woke up with the worst headache the next day that persisted all day long. Nothing would relieve it. The next day was even worse. Then it occurred to us that the device may be the problem, so he unplugged it. Gradually the headaches subsided, but it was the most intense and unusual headache I have ever had! We never ended up using the shock collars because it was clear that the product and its frequencies were unsafe. I also have difficulty flying on airplanes. It gives me terrible restless leg syndrome that goes away as soon as we are on the ground again. This was not an issue for me before Wi-Fi became available. I used to work a job that required me to wear a radio with an earpiece. A headache developed all day long and work its way down in my shoulders and the upper half of my back. I would go home in misery every day. I saw a chiropractor often and got adjustments, but the pain would always come right back. And then I made the connection! After I stopped wearing the device, no more pain and stiffness. I can also no longer go out to the movies without having concussion-like symptoms afterward from the EMF exposure… for weeks! Not everyone is as sensitive as I am— AND not everyone has made the connection that their symptoms may be related to EMF— but this is a daily issue for someone like me and it is ever-increasing as the world depends on more devices and generates more frequencies from those devices. I am terrified that the power company will come out and install a smart meter on my house without my knowledge. Then how would I live in my home? If a cell tower was installed closer to my home -what recourse would I have? I would literally have no way to avoid feeling awful all the time and there are no laws in place to help someone like me. Please take our safety seriously. I’m referencing real-time symptoms, but there are long-term effects to these things too, and if not enough study is done then we are all guinea pigs. We have failed to do the research! And now people are paying the price.

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding as a parent, individual consumer, and concerned resident of the North Houston, Texas, area. I do not have one specific diagnosed health event to report. My concern is the rapidly increasing, involuntary, and continuous nature of RF/EMF exposure in our communities—and the possibility of negative health effects developing over years of cumulative exposure. Our area has recently experienced the installation of thousands of new utility poles, along with additional cell extenders, small-cell equipment, and towers. Families are being surrounded by wireless infrastructure without meaningful notice, informed consent, health monitoring, or practical ways to avoid or reduce their exposure. I am especially troubled that cell towers have been placed at local fire stations. Firefighters already face significant occupational exposures from smoke, combustion byproducts, contaminated protective equipment, diesel exhaust, disrupted sleep, and chronic stress. They should not be subjected to another continuous environmental exposure where they work, eat, sleep, and recover. However, my concern is not limited to towers at fire stations. I want the cell towers, cell extenders, and small-cell equipment throughout our North Houston communities removed—not simply relocated from fire stations to another neighborhood. Moving this infrastructure closer to another family, school, childcare facility, workplace, or public space does not resolve the underlying concern. Reliable communication service is important, but I do not want perfect wireless coverage when it may come at the expense of our health. Faster speeds and uninterrupted connectivity should not automatically take priority over the well-being of children, families, first responders, and communities. Children are of particular concern because they are exposed from very young ages and may experience this exposure throughout their lives. Wireless signals now come from many sources simultaneously, including towers, small cells, Wi-Fi routers, phones, tablets, wearable devices, smart meters, appliances, vehicles, schools, and neighboring homes. Our bodies and nervous systems are given little meaningful break from this constant background exposure. I urge HHS to investigate potential negative health effects associated with long-term and cumulative RF/EMF exposure, including possible effects on sleep, neurological and autonomic nervous-system function, cognition, behavior, headaches, reproductive health, immune function, development, and cancer risk. The absence of an immediate or easily identifiable symptom should not be treated as proof that continuous lifetime exposure is harmless. Research and safety evaluations must reflect real-world conditions—not one device or frequency tested in isolation. Studies should examine continuous lifetime exposure, simultaneous exposure from multiple sources, pulsed and modulated signals, potential non-thermal biological effects, exposure during pregnancy and childhood, occupational exposure among firefighters, antenna density, and cumulative neighborhood exposure. This research should be conducted by independent experts in medicine, neurology, biology, epidemiology, pediatrics, reproductive health, occupational health, and public health, with strong safeguards against industry conflicts of interest. I am asking federal, state, and local authorities to stop further expansion of wireless towers and small-cell infrastructure in our communities and establish a process for removing the equipment already installed. Communities deserve clear disclosure, exposure measurements, meaningful authority over infrastructure placement, and access to safer wired alternatives. Technology should serve people without requiring constant and unavoidable exposure. We should not have to choose between participating in modern society and protecting our families’ health. Please place long-term human health ahead of convenience and ever-increasing wireless coverage.

I am a medical doctor, mother, and health advocate, who has studied the mal-effects of the EMR, especially related to children, for more than 16 years. Initially, my concern was regarding cellphones and laptops. In researching worldwide studies and incidences, wherever I pictured a student placing a cellphone or laptop, the rates of dysfunction of the tissue and cancer were elevated. There has been an egregious lack of oversight since the inception of this technology. In the last ten years, my concern includes children, families, and citizens with mal-effects from the cell towers present over schools, work and homes, as well as the "smart" meters. I began Louisiana for Safe Technology. org. to educate and record their stories. For example, one school presently with a tower near the early childhood center, playing field, and gym have extremely elevated readings. In the third grade, last year after being in the class nearest the tower, two children with acoustic tumors and another one with hearing loss, epilepsy, and headaches occurred. One girl in the class died of brain cancer. Cancer caused death in two teachers whose classes were in this area. Cancer occurred in two students who played hours on the field. These are a few of the health issues in a previously healthy group before the tower instillation. Another school had a tower on top of the music room. Two 7 yo girls had neurologic issues, one of whom can no longer be in the city because of her body's reaction. The teacher they had died of cancer, as well as the subsequent one. I have reports of children with gastrointestinal, neurological and behavioral problems in the classrooms with the wireless laptops, routers, and white boards. The children are nauseous and cannot hold it together psychologically until the end of the school day. Now, my concerns have expanded to AI data centers running ahead at warp speed, again with no studies and no transparencies. // The amount of suffering because of this unseen, but ubiquitously present, toxin is tremendous. Please, examine with transparency the thousands of studies and case histories as to the harms not only to humans but to animals and to the soil microbiome. Allow a health, uncensored debate on EMR, then set appropriate guidelines.

There have been many studies done on the harmful effects to the health of all organic life from 5G radiation and EMFs. Almost everyone i know complains of symptoms from this. Headaches, Sleep Disturbances, Agitation. Many people have devices in their homes to measure the output of wifi and it goes way beyond any healthy range. And that is why millions if not billions of people buy devices and technology to counteract this harm. Even having protection, no one can escape the harm all of the time, especially now that most homes have smart meters on top of everything else. Look at the data. Organic life thieves in nature and pulls and exhausts while being wrapped in these toxic frequencies. We all should care about the world we live in and all life upon it. Children in schools should be getting cancer at the rates they are now. Some schools have removed the cell towers for this reason. Please protect our right to good health!

I have been sensitive to EMFs since the 5G towers and smart meters began being installed.. My symptoms are: head pressure, brain zaps, brain feeling scrambled, muscle cramps, anxiety, trouble breathing and numbness and tingling. I actually feel like I have electricity running through my body and I hear electricity in my ears. When I get in low EMF areas (which are now hard to find) my symptoms go away. I can’t drive through major cities as there is tower after tower. I also have trouble on the highways with tons of cars being hybrid and electric. The vibrations of electric cars also bother me. Perhaps EMFs should be studied more heavily in these types of cars. Also, I got rid of my iwatch due to the EMFs being uncomfortable and only use a cell phone if necessary. Please look into radiation from electronics and the safety of them. When I test using my Safe and Sound meter scores are off the charts. Allowing the production of all of these devices has made life horrific for many of us. We are all trying to flee from all of it. Unfortunately, now they are putting data centers up everywhere (and no one really knows what those are for) making it impossible to live rurally either. It is known per Dr. Klinghardt and others that EMFs increase mold toxicity. So many I know are suffering from that as well. I have developed chemical sensitivity due to mold and EMFs. And those nasty laundry detergents that people use. I would like a life where I don’t feel like I am constantly getting fried with harmful rays. So grateful that you are looking into this.

The mounting evidence on nnEMF on human health, especially our children is irrefutable. Brain tumors, I now have one, Autism, Thyroid and Endocrine disorders, Cancers at a much younger age. The data is exponential on a tangent with the rise of cell towers and antennas everywhere. Lambda waves strengthen the energy, Human safety ignored. The evidence is extensive. You must create safe spaces for children to thrive as human beings not as techno creations. We can communicate safely on light. We can use wired technology as well. Stop the madness. Educate the public on the dangers. There is still time. I have too many files ro upload. The data is there. Just look at the absense of nature in areas where nnEMF is strong. No birds, bees, ducks, etc. Every living creature is being affected. Please help.