Rescue 999: Seconds to Save a Life

Rescue 999: Seconds to Save a Life (2024- )

RunningReality showMedical

Rescue 999: Seconds to Save a Life is an exciting new series with a unique viewpoint of dramatic real-life rescues. Working with UK rescue teams covering sea, mountain, land and air, body-cam material of real-life incidents take the viewer to the heart of the action. The heroic Rescuers and distressed casualties re-tell the story from both sides of the drama as we follow an unfolding narrative of the rescue from start to finish.

Each episode features emotionally charged, real-life emergencies from all over the UK, unpicking the series of events leading to rescuing people in the most perilous of situations. The series celebrates brilliant men and women putting their lives on the line for strangers in need.

Network
Scheduleevery Friday at 20:00 (60 min)

Last Episode

Episode 5
Season 1Episode 560 min

Episode 5

East Anglian Air Ambulance rush to the scene of a serious road traffic collision with a car ploughed into a tree. The casualty needs extraction from the crushed vehicle and urgent attention to potential life-threatening injuries. With no witnesses to the accident, the team piece together the possible cause of events - a call to the shocked husband reveals the family are waiting at home to celebrate her 50th birthday.

Across the country, Wiltshire Air Ambulance are dispatched to a house where a window cleaner has fallen off her ladder. Trapped in a bush for over an hour and in unbearable pain, the team need to urgently relocate a severely dislocated kneecap. In excruciating pain, the casualty requires sedation increasing the risk of her stopping breathing.

For the Kinder Mountain Rescue, a training session turns in to an emergency evacuation when they receive a call out to the highest point in the Peak District - Kinder Scout. Not knowing the full extent of the injuries, they need to reach the casualty, located just below the summit, as quickly as possible. The quickest and easiest evacuation will be to call in the helicopter but, landing on the rocky sloping terrain will be a challenge.

And off the Cumbrian coast, the Maryport Inshore Rescue crew receive a 4am call to locate a broken-down boat 4 miles offshore. But, as they reach the stranded vessel, the sea conditions dramatically change and they're left negotiating two- metre waves in order to get a crew member aboard...

Sep 13, 2024

Recent Episodes

EpisodeNameAirdate
S01E05Episode 5Sep 13, 2024
S01E04Episode 4Sep 6, 2024
S01E03Episode 3Aug 30, 2024
S01E02Episode 2Aug 23, 2024
S01E01Episode 1Aug 16, 2024
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