
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.

Between seminars at a convention in San Francisco, Gage and DeSoto ride with a paramedic unit summoned to a shooting.

Gage annoys the squad with his attempts to snap a candid photo; Brackett and McCall deliver a baby in a restaurant; guest Ron Masak.

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.