
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.

DeSoto and Gage deliver a baby over the father's protests; DeSoto worries about a dinner he is planning for the station-house crew.

Brackett's father undergoes surgery; the paramedics deal with a trapped magician and an invalid endangered by a fallen power pole.

Strange seizures result from bad moonshine; a man with an injured back is trapped in his waterbed; a tiger assaults a used-car dealer.

Firefighters and paramedics respond when a light plane crashes into an apartment house; a man goes into cardiac arrest four times.