Name: Critical Rescue
Released: 2003-09-01T00:00:00.000Z

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When disaster strikes and tragedy seems certain, there is only one hope - Critical Rescue - highly trained teams of paramedics, rescuers and doctors. Their jobs are dangerous, their rescues dramatic. But for the victims of a disaster, these courageous men and woman are all that stand between life and death.

Documentary · 2003 · 1 hr

EPISODE 1

Officer Down

On February 28, 1997, two police officers see armed men enter a bank and call for back up.

49 min · Apr 5, 2019
EPISODE 2

Ominous Warning

On October 17, 1989, Sherra Cox leaves work to unpack her new apartment. Shortly before 5:00 pm, the building begins to shake as San Francisco is slammed by a 7.1 earthquake. The closet door snaps from its hinges and pins her to the floor.

47 min · Dec 31, 2002
EPISODE 3

Fateful Journey

A Metro link passenger train collides head on with a Burlington Northern freight line. The impact pushes the commuter train 334 feet backwards down the track.

46 min · Dec 31, 2002
EPISODE 4

Buried Alive

On March 30, 1998, Paul Vevesco and Larry Knapp arrive at a construction site in Margot Florida to lay pipe. At exactly 9:30, the workers freeze as they hear an ominous rumbling. Soon the north wall of the trench collapses around them.

47 min · Dec 31, 2002
EPISODE 5

Race Against Time

In 2001, hundreds of people pour into the Lonz Winery on Middle Bass Island in Ohio for a Fourth of July celebration when suddenly, the terrace gives way beneath them. One hundred people plummet 20 feet into the winery's cellar.

46 min · Dec 31, 2002
EPISODE 6

When Seconds Count

On June 8th, 1998 the DeBruce Grain Elevator in Haysville, Kansas is preparing for the upcoming wheat harvest. Steven Stallbaumer is working at ground level, loading fertilizer in his truck, when a deafening explosion sends him running for cover.

46 min · Dec 31, 2002

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