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999 Rescue Squad
Medical · 2018 · Rated 7.5/10
Last aired: S5 E10, Episode 10 · 2022-04-12
For the first time, the Yorkshire Ambulance Service has granted access to its Hazardous Area Response Team (HART), one of 15 specialist medical units set up after the 7/7 London bombings to treat badly injured patients in extreme environments.
999: NHS Rescue Squad's unprecedented access will show viewers the camaraderie and courage of men and women who risk their lives to save ours and the blood, sweat and tears required for the physically demanding and thorough training regime, testing skills ranging from nuclear decontamination to using high-speed flood relief boats.
Season 5
E1
Episode 1
2022-02-01 · 60 min
A woman plunges 10ft through the floorboards of her Sheffield home in a freak accident and the HART team launch a major rescue operation to save her. Three firefighters are injured in a gas blast as flames tear through a block of flats.
E2
Episode 2
2022-02-08 · 60 min
There's a major rescue operation on the M1 after a car towing a caravan rolls over and hits a lamp post - trapping the driver.
E3
Episode 3
2022-02-15 · 60 min
The team helps a biker critically injured in a crash. In Brontë country, a man vanishes after going for a swim in a Pennines lake, sparking a major rescue operation.
E4
Episode 4
2022-02-22 · 60 min
A dangerous driver in a pick-up truck causes carnage when his vehicle rolls over and the HART team are called to free him and his passenger from the wreckage.
E5
Episode 5
2022-03-01 · 60 min
A hitman linked to a drugs gang guns down two men in a supermarket car park. Later, a teenage dare leads to a massive rescue operation after a boy vanishes in the water.
E6
Episode 6
2022-03-15 · 60 min
A truck drives through the barrier of a busy motorway and hits a BMW head-on. The team join a delicate rescue operation to persuade a suicidal man down from a bridge.
E7
Episode 7
2022-03-22 · 60 min
It's a race against time to dig out a man buried under three tonnes of soil, and the team are called to rescue the victims of a major crash involving a taxi.
E8
Episode 8
2022-03-29 · 60 min
The team are called to a major fire in a chemicals factory and paramedics join firefighters desperately searching for teenagers reported missing in a swollen river.
E9
Episode 9
2022-04-05 · 60 min
The team are called in to save the survivors of a fatal crash and there's a bomb alert after Afghan asylum seekers are moved into a seaside hotel.
E10
Episode 10
2022-04-12 · 60 min
A car driven by teenage joyriders plunges into a deep ditch and a punter falls through the floor of his local betting shop in a bizarre accident.
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Maxine Peake
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