Critical Rescue

Name: Critical Rescue
Released: 2003-02-06
Rating: 10

2003 · 1 Season · 15 Episodes · 10.0

When disaster strikes and tragedy seems certain, there is only one hope - Critical Rescue - highly trained teams of paramedics, rescuers and doctors. Their jobs are dangerous, their rescues dramatic. But for the victims of a disaster, these courageous men and women are all that stand between life... and death.

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Season 1

E11. Officer Down2003-02-06Police on routine patrol in North Hollywood, California, find themselves outgunned and without automatic weapons or armour, when they confront a pair of heavily armed, masked, armour-wearing bank robbers who begin shooting at them E22. Ominous Warning2003-02-13Rescuers struggle to save people trapped in the rubble of their destroyed homes and a collapsed expressway after the catastrophic 7.1-magnitude 1989 San Francisco earthquake.E33. Fateful Journey2003-02-20An average workday in Southern California turns into a day of tragedies and rescues after commuter and freight trains collide.E44. Oklahoma Tornado2003-02-27A siren sounds in Oklahoma and residents are advised to seek shelter because a tornado is about to touch down E55. Race Against Time2003-03-13Rescuers come to the aid of 100 people plunged into and then trapped in a wine cellar after a terrace collapses at a winery in Ohio during a national holiday celebration.E66. When Seconds Count2003-03-20An explosion in a Kansas grain elevator sets off a chain reaction in the elevator and silos, trapping and injuring dozens of people, while the flammable grain dust generated by the explosion threatens to set off more fires E77. Submerged2003-03-27After the car of two high-school boys skids off the road, flips three times and lands upside-down in an icy pond, one of the boys escapes and a fire-and-rescue team search the freezing waters in hopes of finding the other boy alive E88. F-52003-04-10The threat of destruction looms for residents of Oklahoma's "Tornado Alley" when broadcasters warn of potentially catastrophic weather heading toward them.E99. Thin Ice2003-04-17A rescue team work to resuscitate two brothers after they fall into a frozen pond following a foolish dare, putting their own lives in danger as they venture on thin ice E1010. Buried Alive2003-05-01Two construction workers become buried up to their necks in soil and rock when the wall of their Florida work site collapses, leaving them isolated and facing death.E1111. Trapped2003-06-05In one of the worst hard-rock mining disasters of the last century, nearly 200 Idaho mine workers are trapped in a fire that circulates deadly smoke and carbon monoxide gas E1212. Camille's Wrath2003-06-12Rescuers attempt to save apartment dwellers who ignored warnings and remained in their homes when Category 5 Hurricane Camille made landfall in the south-eastern US in 1969 E1313. Heroes on the Potomac2003-06-19Rescuers race against time to save the passengers and crew of an airliner after it stalls and crashes into a commuter-packed bridge, plunging the jet, six vehicles and a 41-foot section of the span into the icy Potomac River.E1414. Swept Away2003-06-26Rescuers in helicopters and inflatable boats battle the elements to save victims, including people stranded in their flooded homes and overturned vehicles as well as possibly suffering from hypothermia, in one of Texas's worst nights of flooding E1515. Firestorm2003-08-28Fires erupt in a lush but drought-stricken urban forest overlooking Oakland, Calif., killing 25 people, injuring more than 100 and causing $1 billion worth of damage in 1991. Many of the homes were built with wood, a key factor in the devastation.

Cast

Jim Cissell

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Critical Rescue

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