
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.

A pregnant prison inmate in the San Francisco rescue unit goes into labor as the paramedics try to help a sniper victim.

A man's disastrous attempts at exercise repeatedly disrupt the paramedics' barbershop-quartet rehearsals; guest Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

A dog-bite case sheds a new light on Gage's current love interest; an aging stripper collapses in a nightclub; guest Erik Estrada.

Gage and DeSoto unexpectedly encounter a real blaze while en route to a firefighters' parade with their restored antique fire engine.