Senator Wyden release on FaceBook – “Met with the Newport Fishermen’s Wives group, local officials and the Coast Guard before today’s #2025townhall in Lincoln County to ask why the search-and-rescue helicopter was pulled out of this coastal town.   What we heard is unacceptable, & I’ll keep battling to get this life-and-death asset back where it belongs.”  According to a report from the Lincoln Chronicle newspaper on the Central Coast, a U.S. District Judge in Eugene ruled Monday night, Nov. 24, that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security must immediately return a rescue helicopter to the Newport Airport, because it was improperly moved last month.  The US Coast Guard moved the day helicopter back to North Bend and shuttered its facility at the Newport Municipal Airport without notice, required by federal law.  Judge Ann Aiken agreed with the plaintiffs that the move could jeopardize the lives of Central Coast fishermen, especially the Commercial Dungeness Crab boats prepping to start their season Dec. 16th.  The order remains in effect for 14-days while a hearing will be scheduled to further determine the injunction.