Season 1
15 episodes · Feb 6, 2003
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- S1E1
Officer Down
Feb 6, 2003Police 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
- S1E2
Ominous Warning
Feb 13, 2003Rescuers 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.
- S1E3
Fateful Journey
Feb 20, 2003An average workday in Southern California turns into a day of tragedies and rescues after commuter and freight trains collide.
- S1E4
Oklahoma Tornado
Feb 27, 2003A siren sounds in Oklahoma and residents are advised to seek shelter because a tornado is about to touch down
- S1E5
Race Against Time
Mar 13, 2003Rescuers 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.
- S1E6
When Seconds Count
Mar 20, 2003An 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
- S1E7
Submerged
Mar 27, 2003After 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
- S1E8
F-5
Apr 10, 2003The threat of destruction looms for residents of Oklahoma's "Tornado Alley" when broadcasters warn of potentially catastrophic weather heading toward them.
- S1E9
Thin Ice
Apr 17, 2003A 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
- S1E10
Buried Alive
May 1, 2003Two 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.
- S1E11
Trapped
Jun 5, 2003In 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
- S1E12
Camille's Wrath
Jun 12, 2003Rescuers 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
- S1E13
Heroes on the Potomac
Jun 19, 2003Rescuers 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.
- S1E14
Swept Away
Jun 26, 2003Rescuers 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
- S1E15
Firestorm
Aug 28, 2003Fires 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.