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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 he's going to land it. as he's coming down, he still had erratic movement. then he had the bird under control. i said, oh, he's got it, everything is fine. he's got ...
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, everything's cool. i got this. i'll take care of it. >> hold on a second. can you please tell me your name, ma'am. >> i said don't worry about it. she's with me. i'm going to take care of it. >> hold on one second. take a step back right now. ma'am, can you tell me your name? do you need any assistance. >> i'm takin...
If you don't, you lose a buddy. >> so tiny gets to the smoldering helicopter fast. >> when i got to the ditch, steve was underwater. couldn't see anything. so i didn't know if he was alive or if he was dead. >> get on the radio, call dispatch. >> firing orders, tiny instructs another worker to get steve's head above water. that's 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, i'm going to lift this helicopter. i want you to reach under there and grab his foot. >> he said, warren, it's pinned. there's...
>> 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 he's going to land it. as he's coming down, he still had erratic movement. then he had the bird under control. i said, oh, he's got i...