New Zealand's first responders make the difference between life and death, using helicopters, boats and ambulances to transport critical patients to safety in the most precarious situations.
EPISODE 1
Motorcross Accident
St. John Critical Care Paramedics from the Northern Emergency Services Trust find a motocross rider near death in a remote forest; a fishing-boat miles out at sea is no place for an agonizing medical condition.
EPISODE 2
Bloody Boat Rescue
A man is at risk of losing his leg after an accident involving a boat propeller; another needs to be airlifted to hospital after a mysterious accident involving his tractor; a woman is on a ketamine high after a painful ankle dislocation.
EPISODE 3
Always Use Protection
The Auckland Rescue Helicopter crew are dispatched to a critical situation when a drag racer smashes into a concrete wall at 225kph.
EPISODE 4
S.O.S At Sea
EPISODE 5
Near Drowning
A young mother's world comes crashing down when her toddler is pulled unconscious from a swimming pool; the Northland Emergency Rescue Trust chopper is summoned after a head-on collision; a woman takes a terrible fall on a South Island tramp.
EPISODE 6
Mangawhai Heads Cardiac
An Auckland surfer suffers from a cardiac event in the water off Mangawhai and needs to be transported to hospital by a chopper; a woman falls from her motorbike but the rescue mission could be compromised; a family trip to the beach goes wrong.
Karin Bengtsson
Tiril Eeg-Henriksen
Göran Gillinger
Nadja Halid
Mårten Svedberg
Henrik Lundström
Isa Aouifia
Anderz Eide
Emil Algpeus
Richard Jarnhed
Lena Koppel