Episode 1

S1, E1: The team race to the rescue of a tanker driver trapped in the wreckage of his crushed cab after a collision with a concrete gantry on the M1. As firefighters try to establish if the tanker’s toxic cargo is leaking, Paramedic Paul puts his own safety on the line to climb onto the truck to deliver pain killing drugs to his patient.The owner of a factory collapses with a sudden cardiac arrest and the team launch a desperate battle to resuscitate him with the help of a flying doctor. A sunbathing teenager plunges off a 40ft cliff and local paramedics call for back-up from HART after they diagnose a potentially serious spinal injury. Meanwhile, a dispute on a building site ends with a pick-axe embedded in the bonnet of a brand new Range Rover and the man wielding it requiring first aid for a nasty eye injury.