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To set us down. >> it was brown and had an orange stripe on it. >> steve makes three trips with his famous helicopter. victoria films from below, and everything seems routine until the fourth trip when steve reports mechanical trouble to tiny on the radio. >> tiny began saying things like, oh, come on, steve, you did it in nam, you know, you can get this bird down. >> steve momentarily regains control of the chopper. >> so he says hes going to land it. as hes coming down, he still had erratic mo...

This block at you. could you have pepper sprayed him? >> yeah. >> could you have used that. >> male suspect in the vacant lot on the northeast corner. >> my next call dispatch says a male suspect is yelling at a female in a vacant lot. >> turn around. hold on a second. >> hey, man, everythings cool. i got this. ill take care of it. >> hold on a second. can you please tell me your name, maam. >> i said dont worry about it. shes with me. im going to take care of it. >> hold on one second. take a s...

If you dont, you lose a buddy. >> so tiny gets to the smoldering helicopter fast. >> when i got to the ditch, steve was underwater. couldnt see anything. so i didnt know if he was alive or if he was dead. >> get on the radio, call dispatch. >> firing orders, tiny instructs another worker to get steves head above water. thats when tiny sees his biggest problem. >> his leg is stuck. >> at that time is when i found out his foot was pinned. >> tiny told his assistant, im going to lift this helicopte...

>> maybe you could find a place to set us down. >> it was brown and had an orange stripe on it. >> steve makes three trips with his famous helicopter. victoria films from below, and everything seems routine until the fourth trip when steve reports mechanical trouble to tiny on the radio. >> tiny began saying things like, oh, come on, steve, you did it in nam, you know, you can get this bird down. >> steve momentarily regains control of the chopper. >> so he says hes going to land it. as hes comi...

>> so tiny gets to the smoldering helicopter fast. >> when i got to the ditch, steve was under water. couldnt see anything. so i didnt know if he was alive or if he was dead. >> get on the radio, call dispatch. >> firing orders, tiny instructs another worker to get steves head above water. thats when tiny sees his biggest problem. >> his leg is stuck. >> at that time is when i found out his foot was pinned. >> tiny told his assistant, im going to lift this helicopter. i want you to reach under t...

>> maybe you could find a place to set us down. >> it was brown and had an orange stripe on it. >> steve makes three trips with his famous helicopter. victoria films from below, and everything seems routine until the fourth trip when steve reports mechanical trouble to tiny on the radio. >> tiny began saying things like, oh, come on, steve, you did it in nam, you know, you can get this bird down. >> steve momentarily regains control of the chopper. >> so he says hes going to land it. as hes comi...

You react quickly. if you dont, you lose a buddy. >> so tiny gets to the smoldering helicopter fast. >> when i got to the ditch, steve was under water. couldnt see anything. so i didnt know if he was alive or if he was dead. >> get on the radio, call dispatch. >> firing orders, tiny instructs another worker to get steves head above water. thats when tiny sees his biggest problem. >> his leg is stuck. >> at that time is when i found out his foot was pinned. >> tiny told his assistant, im going to...

His famous helicopter. victoria films from below, and everything seems routine until the fourth trip when steve reports mechanical trouble to tiny on the radio. >> tiny began saying things like, oh, come on, steve, you did it in nam, you know, you can get this bird down. >> steve momentarily regains control of the chopper. >> so he says hes going to land it. as hes coming down, he still had erratic movement. then he had the bird under control. i said, oh, hes got it, everything is fine. hes got ...

Everything seems routine until the fourth trip when steve reports mechanical trouble to tiny on the radio. >> tiny began saying things like, oh, come on, steve, you did it in nam, you know, you can get this bird down. >> steve momentarily regains control of the chopper. >> so he says hes going to land it. as hes coming down, he still had erratic movement. then he had the bird under control. i said, oh, hes got it, everything is fine. hes got it. bring it down. >> when it was about two feet from ...