
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.
Stranded Gage and DeSoto, with the assistance of a local physician, provide the only medical help in a town isolated by severe rains.
A grateful woman, whose life Gage once saved, gives him a dog; a friend administers a dose of heroin to a comatose accident victim.
A desperate producer attempts to broadcast a show from the hospital after his star is stricken just before he is to go on the air.
A girl falls ill from eating daffodil bulbs; a crop-duster is trapped in his wrecked plane; a man refuses treatment for a head injury.