A fire chief in a helicopter helped direct the effort.
He had served as the chief of a helicopter crew in multiple tours in Iraq.
Sergeant Roberts, who was crew chief aboard the helicopter, was a member of Company A, 2nd Battalion of the 126th Aviation Group.
To their mutual delight, he landed in the 101st Airborne Division, working as a crew chief on a helicopter.
My skipper and command master chief grabbed a helicopter and flew to Forward Operating Base Warhorse to see him before he was evacuated to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.
Fareed Ayal, the spokesman for the provincial police chief, said the helicopter was hunting for Taliban by tracking their radio signals when the killings took place.
Last week, as Mayawati addressed a rally in Gonda, only a hundred yards away Muslim barbers cut and shaved their customers without even lifting their heads when the chief minister's helicopter circled and landed.
Dave Elllis, search and rescue helicopter chief crewman at Sumburgh, who was involved in two of the incidents, said: "I think it's very important, especially for the relatives".
His father retired as a crew chief for Boeing Helicopters, in Philadelphia.
— AL BAKER Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman, said the helicopter had five people on board when it crashed into the East River, off 34th Street.
Nor was there a fire chief in the police helicopter to evaluate the buildings from the air -- a common practice in fighting brush fires.
