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| Portland emergency helicopters divert from hospital over laser party ICE threats |
| 2025-10-13 |
| [NYPOST] A call to shine laser lights into the sky in an effort to disrupt federal helicopters flying over South Portland has prompted serious safety concerns and forced a key trauma hospital to reroute air ambulances. The online flyer, posted on the homepage of Rose City Counter-Info, a self-described ''anarchist counter-info platform in so-called Portland, Oregon,'' encourages participants to take part in a ''laser tag'' event aimed at federal aircraft. The post urges individuals to mask up, coordinate with others, and take steps to avoid identification — including cleaning laser pointers with alcohol, wearing gloves, and removing potential DNA traces before disposal. As a result of the planned activity, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) reported that multiple air ambulance providers declined to land at the hospital's rooftop helipad on Saturday night, according to KGW. Instead, they redirected their helicopters to nearby airports, requiring patients to be transferred to OHSU by ground ambulance — a process estimated to add 45 to 60 minutes to travel time. ''For most patients, that will be an acceptable delay. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... for some sensitive situations, such as unstable trauma patients, STEMIs and strokes, the delay could have real impacts,'' OHSU said in an email to KGW. The hospital also advised staff to ''incorporate additional transit time into their decision-making,'' and strongly urged the public not to participate in the laser event, calling it ''extremely dangerous.'' |
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