
999: Rescue Squad
Go behind the scenes of HART, the Yorkshire Ambulance Service's Hazardous Area Response Team, on of 15 specialist medical units set up after the 7/7 London bombings to treat badly injured patient's in extreme environments.
- Created By
- First Aired on
Feb 13, 2018
- Popularity: 0.9563
- 3 votes
- Networks
- (GB)
- Status: Ended
Show Ended
5 seaons till Apr 12, 2022
Last episode: Episode 10
Seasons & episodes
Total 5 seasons, 50 episodes

Season 1
Aired
Episode 1Episode 145 min
Team leader Rochers races to save the life of a DIY mechanic trapped under his car after a jack collapses. A waste disposal plant catches fire, spewing poisonous smoke into the air over a housing estate. A sunbathing teenager plunges off a 40ft cliff, and a dispute on a building site ends with a pick-axe embedded in the bonnet of a brand new Range Rover.
Episode 2Episode 245 min
The HART medics race to respond to a major chemical leak which is endangering the lives of thousands of people. There’s a dramatic emergency at an abandoned school after a teenager falls 30ft down the chimney into an underground boiler room. In Leeds, an elderly motorist is run over by his own car and the HART medics fight to free his leg after it becomes trapped around the front wheel.
Episode 3Episode 345 min
A man is shot outside a mosque and paramedics Manny and Tony lead the race to save his life. It’s bonfire night and police come under attack in the inner city and HART must brave fireworks and bricks to reach an injured cop. Paramedic Rochers leads his squad on a long-distance drive to Hull where a man is hurling slates from a three storey building onto police below. Elsewhere, a nurse is trapped upside down in her wrecked car and paramedic Andy must climb in to treat her as firefighters struggle to free his patient without worsening her injuries.
Episode 4Episode 445 min
The HART team are called to join the operation to defuse a bomb found in a house in Wakefield as disposal officers from the Army try to make a safe a lethal IED. In woods near Leeds, there’s a tricky rescue after a BMX rider fractures his spine. There’s a manhunt on the banks of a river in Leeds for a man armed with a knife. In Halifax, a teenager’s arm is impaled on a gate, sparking a complex operation to free him.
Episode 5Episode 545 min
There is a suspected acid attack on the streets of Bradford.