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A bomb threat from an extremist group known to law enforcement prompted a major emergency response at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena on Friday morning, August 7, with the threat called in around 5:49 a.m.
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The hospital received a bomb threat “from an extremist group known to law enforcement,” but officials did not provide further details on the group due to the investigation.
3. The coverage connects this to the Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), a group with four members arrested in December 2025 for planning New Year’s Eve bombing attacks.
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K-9 teams, police officers and firefighters responded and worked to clear buildings, and the hospital was later given the all clear Friday morning with no injuries reported.
A bomb threat from an extremist group known to law enforcement prompted a major emergency response at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena Friday morning, with the call coming in around 5:49 a.m.
K-9 teams, police officers and firefighters responded and worked to clear buildings.
Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, California.
The threat against Huntington Hospital in Pasadena was called in around 5:49 a.m., according to Pasadena city spokesperson Lisa Derderian.
A spokesperson for the city said that around 5:40 a.m., the hospital received a bomb threat “from an extremist group known to law enforcement,” and officials did not provide further details on the group due to the investigation.
The hospital was diverting emergency traffic and police were working to clear and secure the building.
The hospital campus had been secured and a systematic search of the area was being conducted as of 8:20 a.m.
“Pasadena Police Department immediately responded to our campus and are investigating,”
Huntington Public Relations & Media Director Dorey Huston said at 8:22 a.m.
“Our hospital is open to staff and patients, with screening protocols in place. We are working closely with our local authorities to ensure safety of our staff, patients, and employees,” Huston continued.
The hospital was later given the all clear Friday morning, and no injuries were reported.
Shortly after 9 a.m., police provided an update that the incident had been cleared.
The hospital clarified that it was not on lockdown.
“We are grateful for the swift response of our local law enforcement partners and appreciate the cooperation of our staff, patients, and visitors throughout this situation,” the hospital said.
The extremist group is motivated by pro-Palestinian, anti-law-enforcement, and anti-government ideology.
Federal authorities announced they disrupted a credible and imminent terrorist threat ahead of New Year’s Eve, with multiple suspects tied to a radical group planning coordinated bombing attacks targeting several locations in the Los Angeles area using improvised explosive devices.
FBI Director Kash Patel said that the four people who face charges for the alleged plot in California are members of a group known as the Turtle Island Liberation Front.
The suspects – Audrey Ilene Carroll, 30; Dante Garfield, 24; Zachary Aaron Page, 32; and Tina Lai, 41 – faced charges for planning an attack involving improvised explosive devices.
In the viral moment that has emerged from the December 2025 New Year’s Eve bombing plot arrest,
Carroll distributed pages describing how to build the bombs, saying she already had 13 PVC pipes cut to size and had ordered two five-pound bags of potassium nitrate from Amazon.
A criminal complaint alleged that the group had acquired bomb-making materials and traveled to a remote location in the Mojave Desert to construct and detonate test explosive devices on December 12.
The FBI arrested them before they could make functional explosive devices.
Pasadena police said the area around California Boulevard between Pasadena Avenue and Fair Oaks Avenue was clear and reopened, with no further police activity and no action required from the public.