Phoenix FD has a LOT of experience fishing people off of mountains. They didn’t have someone with a “tail rope” on the ground to stabilize the basket.
That’s a crappy role, because the rotor wash is kicking up a blizzard of rocks and crap.
Watch Phoenix FD doing it right. on this one At 2:47 you can see the stabilizing line going down to the ground.
They forgot that bit.
ADDING:
That may be Phoenix Police doing the bad lift … their helicopters are blue and white.
