999 Whats Your Emergency Season 3 Episode 13 - Episode 13

Airdate: 2016-Oct-03

Episode summary:

999: What's Your Emergency? meets the police and paramedics in Cheshire, following incidents from the moment when a 999 call is made to the arrival of the hard-working men and women who protect us from ourselves and each other, while seeing us as we really are. They talk with honesty and wit about the ever-increasing challenges of modern Britain. This episode explores the challenges that inevitably come with the end of life, and how the emergency services have to learn to cope when dealing with death on a daily basis. In Warrington paramedics arrive at the home of a man having a suspected cardiac arrest. With CPR already in action and a defibrillator at close hand he is given the best possible chance of survival.

About 999 Whats Your Emergency series:

The volume of 999 calls has jumped by 60% in the last generation, with 31 million received in 2011. Filmed 24/7 with police, fire and ambulance tea...Show more >