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here to see a vid of a helicopter involved in a fire rescue today in Sao Paulo.
I'm not sure of the name of the 'basket' used for recovering the fire victims (it has a similar appearance to the crayfish pots I used to fish with as a youngster - only bigger) but my question is .. couldn't a device similar to this, with a sufficiently long enough line, have been used to rescue victims on 9/11?