Towers & siting

HHS, I am someone who has seen more harms and disease via wireless technologies than most. I am electrosensitive; my grandpa told me of my inherited ability to sense energies when we were close during his lifetime; turns out we are sensitive to human energy and EMF. My grandparents lived on acreage WA. Wireless coverage was poor but existed. Acreage was sold to a wireless company by a neighboring farm, & a large cell tower was installed on the property next to my grandparents' house. "Coincidentally," after tower installation, my grandma began to have memory problems, which she not had before, and leg swelling that was also ususual. My grandpa began to have bad insomnia; sleep disturbances contributed to his dementia, developing over the following years. My grandpa & grandma had personality changes, with new memory impairment, and physical symptoms, including inability to sleep, right after tower installation next to their property. Before this period, they were unusually high functioning cognitively for their age, which they attributed to God and eating mostly plant based diets. Yet for grandparents, the age related decline often seems to be, at least partly the result of new technology around them, yet harms can be put off as age related. During my years as a caregiver, I saw clients from all backgrounds & diseases, but most were over 60. Every time there was dementia, or new mental impairment, like sudden memory problems, I saw the introduction of new tech into their lives: tower facing room, wifi in their room, new smart phone/5g. There was a connection every time; elderly are vulerable groups to diseases & harms causes by EMF's. Now about me: 1st time I sensed RF-EMF directly aware was from my phone that disturbed me. I was 12, and I got my first flip phone; I awoke from sleep literally 1 second BEFORE ringing began. Pattern repeated: I noticed the phone is waking me up, but what is waking me up is something other than light or sound. ITS THE RADATION! Over the years, I began to become more and more SENSITIVE to radiation/EMF. After vaccine injury @13, where I received 2 vaccines containing aluminum & mercury, I had a very bad reaction, physical & psychological. At the time, people tried to convince me my reactions were psychological, but the treatments for such did not help but made everything worse. Some told me there was so way I can be vaccine injured. Yet I chose to not finish vaccine series, when I found out death, paralysis, or premature menopause resulted for many (gardasil). Physical symptoms were significant, but psychological symptoms fit the pattern of aluminum poisoning, combined with EMF: whenever outside home, especially my room, coincidentally farthest away from Wifi & under ceiling with metal pipes in it, I would become anxious or not want to be around people; being in public made me feel like I was literally being electrocuted! Now I see why, years after researching my own health problems, which caused me to find natural solutions on my own... Yet the process took years; I had setbacks many times, & I must admit some were due to more disease causing radiation & EMF's. 2020: both grandmas died; I lived with one of them, & I stayed there awhile after she died. 5G cell is placed on the roof of the house next door--why do they allow such harmful proximity to EMF? After 5G cell, I was unable to RELAX or go to SLEEP until after 12am--I was up right at 7 every morning, unable to sleep in no matter how hard I tried. Melatonin helped some but did not undo symptoms. EMF meter I had measured: off time was 12am & went back on at 7am. My health suffered from the 5g cell; bad insomnia, anxiety, depression, disorganization, headache, malabsorption & pain. After moving, I was unable to not live in houses by a cell tower for years; I mitigated damage by: living in the basement, not having wifi near me, using my phone less/a few hours/turning on airplane mode if not using/off during sleep! Yet, being around Wifi, living near cell towers, hurt my health & mostly mentally. After 2 years, finally living with low radiation, I see health recover, yet I have pain & symptoms recur if around too much EMF: insomnia, headaches, anxiety, depression, fogginess, disorganization, joint pain, irritability, numbness. Daily I see how decreasing EMF helps my health--I want to help others see damages being done to their health by EMF! EMF's daily exposure, controlling as much as possible, I was able to heal. Writing my letter on airplane mode, I can think better. In nature, I can be my full self: no EMF. Interference to human connection is EMF too! Important: every time near cell tower, or wifi modem, or a lot of computers, I feel pain to some degree--radiation mostly alters how I feel, thinking, or sleep. Yet great research exists showing health harms caused by EMF. Please help us! Dr. Martin Pall is one of the foremost researchers on EMF's--PDF 90+ pages of quality research is found on: radiationresearch.org.

Hello, I am an American born U.S. Citizen of 56 yrs. old and along with my wife have raised a beautiful family of four in this wonderful country. At least it was wonderful for us until about 6-7 years ago. We had built a house and gardens and a good life in Willits, Ca.. AT&T and T-Mobil wanted to put a cell tower in our rural neighborhood-basically right on top of us. Our neighborhood opposed this tower-77% were against 33% for. We petitioned the county planning and supervisors to deny the tower approval to the telecom companies and to give us fiber-optic line instead. They had fiber all the way to the tower site and could have given us safe broadband easily but a tower is cheaper and makes more profit for them. We attempted to share our medical issues and health concerns with them but were told that they would be struck from the record and not considered because of the 1996 telecommunications act-health issues were not valid according to this arbitrary and capricious act. So we tried to show how it was ugly-they said they would make it look like a fake tree-we showed that they had placed it 5ft. too close to a residence to pass code-they changed the code to allow five more feet . Sneaky, behind the closed door bullshit! They built the tower in complete disregard to the people's wishes-the overwhelming majority-77% said no/twice 77% -In any American election or vote 77% is a majority-hands down. At least this is how I believed we did things in America. Now I know better. Since that time my family and I have all realized that the major health issues we have has been due to the EMR in our environment. We were forced to leave our home we built and have been living in a R.V. down in a creek zone where there is no cell service. We cannot work jobs, go out to eat, go see a movie or music concerts with out becoming ill and having to take days to recover. We cannot engage in modern American life anymore-we are isolated and alone without any real way to make an income. Our children cannot even attend school or go to college let alone travel anywhere. We are currently looking into the American disabilities act for compensation-there have been a few individuals that have been awarded lifetime compensation due to their EHS and inability to create an income and must stay at home. If this is the only way to afford living here then we must pursue the ADA claim. I do not want to do so-I would rather be able to work and be in society. The health effects are real and devastating. My family is living through them at this very minute-We are seeing a doctor for EHS and know 100% that the effect are not psychosomatic. I implore you to look at the real science-not the telecom funded b.s. and lies they have been feeding us. The future of our country, children and environment depend on diminishing the high levels of EMF's we are currently being poisoned with 24/7. We can still have high speeds and keep pace with the world of commerce if we can regulate and make this technology safer. My family could even participate in American life once again. Please do your job and help the people! By the people? For the people? Please live up to true American values-not big business! Thank you, Rain Youngstrom

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. When using my cell phone, my fingers tingle and hurt. My Dr. can tell when I have had to much emf exposure. I can not put a cell phone to my ear as after just a second or two, my ear and head start burning. I didn't realize until a few days ago, that my electric meters were monitored remotely. The meter is outside our (my late husband's and my) bedroom. We stayed out of the bedroom and slept in the living room without understanding the reason. I cannot go into the Viaero cell phone store in my community without getting a splitting headache that is not normal. Abnormal headaches are becoming more frequent. I have a cell tower very close to my residence. I put emf protection on the wall facing the tower. That helped some. I Know many others who have complained of health problems and disabilities because of emf exposure including family members who are disabled due to emf exposure. They cannot travel, or even get into newer cars. They started having problems with tingly and hurt hands touching a cell phone. I would appreciate the cell phone tower close to me at least moved as it is not only a health hazard, its ugly as I have a beautiful view of the hill above me with a cell phone tower sticking out ruining the view. I talked with the power district about removing the meters at my residence and putting in ones that are read manually. Doing so, will cost me $200 per meter, plus $30 extra each month if I read them and $85 a month if the electric company comes out to read them. As the meters are a health issue, I would appreciate help with paying for them, or a waiver to get them changed over.

This is a second hand account from a sister of the heart, I was working on trying to get a cell tower banned from close contact in my residential neighborhood, I went to visit a very close friend who was dying of pancreatic cancer. Janet knew what I was fighting and on her death bed she was a voice that kept saying keep fighting this is important. This vibrant health nut friend who was always doing the right thing for health confided that she felt her original breast cancer (which she beat 20 years prior) was caused by a cell tower right behind her home in Seatlle. She moved, was able to beat the cancer and went on to have a productive healthy life. As an interior designer Janet would spend hours each day on site doing hands on work and managing projects, one very bad habit she had was carrying her cell phone in her back jeans pocket when working on a project. The last project Janet completed lasted more than a month and was located less than 500' from five- 5G antennas at the local cemetary. When working on this project for weeks as she worked on this project, the phone connected and reconnected to those towers thru her body hundreds of times per day. About a month after completing this whole house redesign, Janet got pancreactic cancer, she fought it the best she could. She would be telling this story but she died in 2023 from pancreatic Cancer, she told me she felt the cancer might have come back because of the phone in her back pocket and the proximity to the cell towers. I am sure you cant use second hand accounts, but I stilll had to relay Janets story, because she was my friend and she is not able to.

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 from the perspective of a [patient, parent, family member, caregiver, healthcare professional, researcher, advocate, concerned member of the public, or other]. In my wider circle of Friends I know two persons who are strongly affected by the radiation of mobile-phone towers around them. Until 4G the negative effects like headaches and nervousness and feeling unwell were not so strong, but since 5G they have to protect themselves rigorously with very special, expensive fabric (even slightly covering their face), during the night they sleep under a special construction (baldachin, made of very special protectiv fabric) to avoid exposure to the radiation of 5G. I support HHS taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. Questions about human health should be addressed by federal agencies with appropriate expertise in medicine, biology, epidemiology, and public health, and the experiences of individuals and families who report being affected should be considered alongside the scientific evidence. I urge HHS to carefully evaluate these experiences and the scientific evidence, identify gaps in current research, give particular attention to children and other potentially vulnerable populations, and establish appropriate federal research priorities regarding wireless radiation and public health. Thank you for providing individuals and families with an opportunity to be heard.

From the year 2008 until the end of 2012, I lived nearby a cell phone tower with only 2G from the telecom company Vodafone. I was living on the second floor which was also the highest floor in a rented house in Rotterdam Zuid, Holland. The distance betweem my rented house and the cell phone tower is approximately 20 to 30 meters. My symptoms at that time was - I had insomnia - Chronic fatigue - Brain fog - I had low energy - I was weak - Very poor concentration - Slow reaction time - No stamina I have noticed back then that it was extremely hot in my home. One of the reason was probably because cell phone towers emit microwave radiation. I was physically, mentally and emotionally drained. At the end of 2012, I also have ear ringing (tinnitus) in my right ear and till to this day, I still have ear ringing in my right ear. I know for 100% that my symptoms are mainly caused by the man-made radiation from this cell phone tower, wi-fi modem in my house and my cellphone. They all emit microwave radiation also known as radio frequency radiation (RFR). In May 2011, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) from the World Health Organization classified radiofrequency radiation as Group 2B, meaning they are possibly carcinogenic to humans. Electromagnetic Hyper Sensitivity (EHS) is recognized by the World Health Organization. Dr. Lennart Hardell, a medical doctor, and oncologist. “We conclude that there is clear evidence that RF radiation is a human carcinogen, causing glioma and vestibular schwannoma (acoustic neuroma). There is some evidence of an increased risk of developing thyroid cancer, and clear evidence that RF radiation is a multi‑site carcinogen. Based on the Preamble to the IARC Monographs, RF radiation should be classified as carcinogenic to humans, Group 1.” (Source: https://ehtrust.org/science/whoiarc-position-on-wireless-and-health/) Electromagnetic Hyper Sensitivity is recognized as an environmental intolerance by the World Health Organization. France's national law passed in 2015, established the following: Nursery schools: A complete ban on wi-fi for spaces dedicated to children under 3 years old. I highly recommend watching scientist Barrie Trower, because he is studying microwave radiation since 1960. In my view, he is the authority on microwave radiation. Because when I arrived at a white zone (is an area with no mobile phone reception or severely restricted radio frequency radiation) in 2020 in Germany, I almost did not hear the ear ringing anymore almost in an instant. So the loudness of my ear ringing reduced a lot. My energy level increased a lot. I had no or almost no brain fog anymore. I slept so well in the white zone. But when I returned to the city where in general there are a lot of cell phone towers, my ear ringing got much much louder. My energy level decreased. A lot of brain fog. Sleep quality decreased a lot, I wake up multiple times during the night. Every time I went to the white zone in Germany, my symptoms improved a lot. But every time I go back to the city, my symptoms are getting worse. Back then, I did not know that these man-made radiation is harmful to humans, animals, insects and nature. It took me about 3 to 3,5 years of full-time research to find out that these man-made radiations are harmful. Because of this cell phone tower from Vodafone, I lost my job and I lost my house. I had to move back to my parents house. Because of this, I could not work for almost 6 years. A big part of my life is ruined. The ear ringing is ruining my life. I sleep much better when the wi-fi modem is shut off. I sleep not good and I wake up at least one time during the night when the wi-fi modem is on. When a smart phone from Apple is on and this phone is about 5 to 6 meters away from my bed, I wake up at least a couple of times during the night and I cannot sleep deeply. I sleep deeper and much better when a smart phone from Apple is completely shut off. A former co-worker of mine could not fall asleep when his wi-fi modem was on, but when he shut it off, he fell asleep right away. Another former co-worker of mine said to me when I completely shut off my smart phone, I sleep through the night without waking up. But if my smart phone is on, I wake up during the night at least one time. A good friend of mine sleeps very bad if the wi-fi modem is on, but when it's shut off, she sleeps much better.

I started experiencing headaches when 5G tower was put on top of the apartment building I lived in. This apartment building is in a city. I’m not a person to experience headaches, so when this started happening, I couldn’t help but wonder if the 5G, 3 floors above my apartment, was causing it. Some of the headaches were very bad. I live in a single family home now further away from 5G tower and don’t have the headaches anymore. I am concerned about this topic and would like unbiased research and resources to go towards this with openness in sharing its findings with the public, regardless of what they show. We need to know.

I am. Ph.D. In aerospace engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2010, I was a Sam Nunn Fellow, selected to be part of a program, addressing the intersection between science technology and policy. As part of this course, we were encouraged to do a research project on the intersection of science, technology with policy. For this project, I covered the history at the time related to the development of mobile telecommunications and the various effects of EMF radiation used in telecommunications on biological samples. I would be glad to share my findings at a later time. In short, after doing that research project, I never spoke with a cell phone by my ear for more than a 30 second call, rather always using wired headphones for any lengthy call and always keeping the phone away from my body. That practice remains until this day. Since 2010, the bandwidth of EMF radiation has only increased as the bandwidth of data transported through the devices has increased, going from 3G at the time to 5G and LTE today. Similar protocols dictate how I arrange wireless routers in my home. Since then, I have worked in the intersection between neuroscience and engineering, starting a company that works with the federal government, particularly the Army, until this day. As a company, we have focused on cognitive performance in a variety of high stakes, decision-making, environments, for instance, and supporting war fighter readiness. Our techniques have not been used to evaluate the effects of EMF on cognitive function, but there is reason to believe that they would be effective in doing so. Furthermore, a large sample of our clients are law-enforcement professionals and police. Routinely, we observe cell phone towers with 5G transmitters affixed to towers stationed on police and other civil administration properties. If the effects of EMF radiation from studies available in 2010 are any indication, projected forward today to the greater bandwidth of 5G and LTE technologies in 2026, it is very likely that a large source of radiative impact lands on the civil personnel that work underneath towers placed on these public properties. Again, the expertise of our company could be leverage to evaluate this potential claim. Mobile telecommunication act of 1996 has delivered incredible benefits in the delivery of information around the country and other parts of the world. The gradual expansion of commercially available bandwidth licensed from the federal government to private industry allows these information exchanges. However, it is unclear what role state and federal law-enforcement has to investigate claims of injury brought by the use of such bandwidth. Once the cause of liability has been properly assigned, if it exists at all, there is possibly a next step to pursue legal action in either state and/or federal venue. Both state and federal personnel are routinely exposed to mobile telecommunication sources, such as towers holding 5G transmitters. If these radiation sources are causing damage and a cognitive level, then they should be evaluated. For instance, the military currently uses the defense automated neural physiological assessment (DANA) to evaluate brain injury. Our company is currently working with the Walter Reed Hospital to develop a more sophisticated application to compliment this procedure, specifically aimed at mild traumatic brain injury. It is possible that a similar protocol could be used to evaluate cognitive performance effects and their extent for people living or working near mobile telecommunication sources. Using such tools, it may be possible even to re-develop cognitive performance that has been lost by exposure to radiation injury, in the same way that it is hypothesis currently that concussive brain injury can be either minimized or reversed with proper cognitive treatment. We are glad to help as possible. See deCervo.com for more about the company doing this work.

Wireless exposure is out of control. There are no real clean zones now. This must stop. I do not consent to being exposed to this toxin. Cell towers on every corner, near our homes, beaches, parks, schools and health food stores. Being "connected" comes at a high price. Fatigue, nose bleeds, heart palps, cancer, dizzy spells and ringing in the ears to name a few. Have we forgotten what it feels like to be in good health? To have clean spaces in nature that are not being lit up with wireless 24/7? They are coming for us all. They want it from the ground to the sky! Wake up and educate yourself. Before it is beyond too late. I do not consent. The Gov, and Big tech are in bed together. Money is their God.

Our children attended a school and there were two large 5G towers on school property. Our children would complain of headaches everyday while at school. We became very concerned and had to move them to a different school. At school now they are happy and I’ve not heard them complain of a headache while at school. Just recently they installed a 5G small cell right by our home. In December 2025. We have all been terribly ill and terrible headaches everyday while at home. We have also been experiencing insomnia and other symptoms. Our neighbors are also experiencing health issues. We just can’t seem to catch a break. Our home used to be our safe place and it is no longer our safe place. We are very sensitive to 5G and it’s affecting our quality of life. I pray the 5G small cell that was installed to send information from the smart meters in our neighborhood- I pray it can be removed. Bradenton, Florida.