First Responders

Join ambulances, helicopters and boats across New Zealand, transporting critical patients to safety. Paramedics find a motocross rider near death in a remote forest.

A man is at risk of losing his leg after a horrific accident with a boat propeller, while another needs to be airlifted to hospital after an accident involving a tractor.

The Auckland Rescue Helicopter crew are dispatched to a critical situation when a drag racer smashes into a concrete wall.

Four people are left fighting to keep their heads above water when their boat sinks in the Firth of Thames.

A young mother's world comes crashing down when her toddler is pulled unconscious from a swimming pool.

An Auckland surfer suffers from a frightening cardiac event in the water off Mangawhai and needs to be transported to hospital by a chopper.

A young mountain biker gets a chopper ride off the side of a mountain when he breaks his leg, and a cardiac patient takes a terrifying turn.

Intensive care paramedics prepare for the worst after a farm accident, and a child suffers a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction.

A mayday call from a yacht triggers a search and rescue operation involving multiple agencies including the Air Force and the Auckland Rescue Helicopter team.

A huge team of volunteers from across the South Island gathers on the West Coast to search for a Swedish national who went hunting in the Karangarua Valley area but never returned.

Fire crew work to extinguish brush fire at a campsite in Pierce County, WA. Paramedic Jamiel on the scene of a car in a tree in Yonkers, NY. Burglary suspect's gun recovered from woods in Charleston, SC.

Two suspects detained after gun found in car and paramedics respond to multi-vehicle crash with injury in Baton Rouge, LA. Engine 18 rushes to a burning vehicle in Kansas City, KS.

Paramedics respond to a man with a bloody face wound in Baton Rouge, LA. Firefighters respond to car crash outside of the fire station in Kansas City. Patient has 106 degree fever in Pierce County, WA.