Rescue 999: Seconds to Save a Life S01E01 - Episode 1
Summary:
In the first of this brand-new series, the Killin Mountain Rescue volunteers in the Scottish Highlands search for a female hiker stranded 3000 feet up in the snowy peaks of Ben Oss, but with fog setting in the race is on to find her before the weather gets worse, the temperature drops, and they lose daylight.
On the South coast in the Solent GAFIRS lifeboat is launched to rescue a marooned yacht being dragged perilously towards wooden piles on the shoreline. Even with sonar on board the lifeboat crew run the risk of becoming stranded on the sandbanks in difficult to navigate shallow water.
The Magpas Air Ambulance team, based in Cambridgeshire, are called out to an emergency case after a woman is found unconscious in her home. She needs urgent critical care to get her to hospital as quickly as possible and it's down to the expertise of the crew to stabilise her to make the journey.
And, an emergency in the Peak District for the Edale Mountain Rescue team as they take on the challenge to stretcher out a climber who has fallen 5 metres down a rock face with potentially life-threatening injuries. They battle to get him back up a dangerously rocky cliff face, without causing further injury, to get the hospital care he needs.
Rescue 999: Seconds to Save a Life S1E1 Screenshot
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Exciting new series with bodycam footage of dramatic
real-life rescues. The search in on for a hiker on the
peaks of Ben Oss, and a yacht is in peril on the
Solent
