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The spinning rescue basket
Piestewa Peak, Phoenix Mountains Preserve, Arizona
Still from the original video by Phoenix TV news helicopter
A 74 year old hiker fell on the trail below the summit here early on 4 June 2019 and could not walk out, so Phoenix Fire put her in a Stokes basket and lifted her on a long line. Partway up, the line that keeps a basket from turning in the rotor wash gave out. The basket started to spin and kept spinning for around forty seconds while the crew raised and lowered her trying to kill the rotation. News helicopters were overhead filming the whole thing and it went round the world the same afternoon. She came out of it dizzy and bruised and nothing worse. The city settled with her later for $450,000.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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