Harborview trauma room suspect held on $250,000 bail after oxygen line fire scare

SEATTLE — A patient accused of destroying a trauma room at Harborview Medical Center will remain in custody after a judge set bail at $250,000.

Seattle police were called to the hospital’s emergency department Saturday morning as the suspect broke an oxygen line and tried to light a fire, which could’ve caused an explosion.

Court documents detail the destruction the patient, identified as Steven Sauro, 29, caused at Harborview. Hospital staff says Sauro became enraged that he was about to be discharged with only splints to help heal his wrist injury and started destroying a trauma room in the emergency department…

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