Person stranded on heavy scooter at transit center, Portland OR
Medical EmergencyA person using a heavy motorized scooter is stranded at Sunset Transit Center because the train service is shut down. Multiple agencies are trying to find a way to transport the person and their scooter home. Available vehicles are too small to carry the scooter. Assistance from deputies with a pickup truck or a flatbed tow truck is being considered.
Audio|Source: Portland State University Police and Portland Police Service Desk
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Transcript:
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It could be a very strange request.
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I have a gentleman stranded here on a scooter with about 400 pounds, like a mobile wheelchair.
00:06
And you would usually use the train to get home, but the train is shut down between here and Sunset Transit Center.
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So I was just trying to help the guy out and maybe get a part of the transport, but our vehicles are too small to fit the scooter end.
00:19
Can I maybe get the jail number to see if I can get like two deputies work and the deputies of from patrol to come help out with like a pickup truck or something like that?
00:29
146, transporting one, put one to a manual.
00:31
Yeah, definitely do that.
00:32
I just trying to get to see the other options.
00:33
They were to Guards.
00:36
They pretty much went to the whole tournament options route.
00:39
Their buses are too small.
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and the traffic had the train shut down.
00:43
They tried getting a different service out of here, medical transport service, but a scooter again, it keeps banging.
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The only thing I could think of outside of pickup truck, like, from county, and it's like a flatbed tow truck.
00:56
It's not that big, though, but he doesn't have insurance stuff.
00:58
Alright, you can get a phone number for the jail and give them a call and see it to be the ideas.
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Location mentioned:
Sunset Transit Center, Portland, OR 97225
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