
The dedicated members of Squad 51 of the Los Angeles County Fire Department's newly created Paramedical Rescue Service take on a series of life-or-death challenges in this drama filmed in semi-documentary style. Partners John Gage and Roy DeSoto put their lives on the line to save people from all sorts of mishaps.

Gage and DeSoto participate in several hazardous rescues during their first visit to Seattle.

A supposedly inactive oil well underneath a suburban home suddenly erupts; a 14-year-old hospital patient second-guesses his doctors.

Several rescues, including an explosion and a ferry-boat fire, occupy DeSoto and Gage during a Seattle visit.

The paramedics try to persuade a guard to open an armored truck so they can help a wounded man inside; gossip permeates the hospital.