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Episode 5

Episode 5 of 10

A man calls the emergency services threatening to detonate a bomb. The area is evacuated, but special operations paramedics stay at the scene while police negotiate with the suspect.

A large-scale operation unfolds when a man in Glasgow calls emergency services threatening to detonate a bomb in a residential street. It's late at night, but the residents are evacuated while paramedics, the police and fire service stay behind.

In Edinburgh, two paramedics who suffer with asthma are called to the home of a fellow asthmatic who is experiencing a nasty attack. They also attend a scene outside a nightclub in the city centre, where a man is suffering the ill effects of alcohol and drug use
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In Melrose, a 90-year-old patient who may have had a stroke worries that he is wasting NHS time. And an Inverness crew visits a ‘high-intensity user’ who has been calling ambulances frequently over the last ten years.

Release date:

57 minutes

On TV

Next Tuesday 21:00

Credits

Role Contributor
Narrator John Michie
Executive Producer Mick McAvoy
Executive Producer Fiona Blair
Series Producer Matt Holden
Executive Producer Saira Khan
Executive Producer Tony Nellany

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