First Responders

St John Critical Care Paramedics from the Northern Emergency Services Trust find a motocross rider near death in a remote forest.

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.

The Auckland Rescue Helicopter crew are dispatched to a critical situation when a drag racer smashes into a concrete wall at 225kph.

Four people are left fighting to keep their heads above water when their boat sinks in the Firth of the Thames.

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.

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.