London's HEMS team Doctor Karen Heath with paramedics Alan Norman and Lester Bernard are busy tackling a series of 999 calls when the Bishopsgate bomb blast rocks their control room in the city centre.
Paramedics Brenda Blood and Maurice Foster of Derbyshire Ambulance Service speed to the scene of an explosion in a terraced house and treat a woman who had fallen from a window.
Firefighters from Manchester's Thompson Street fire station respond to a fire in a block of flats, a derelict building fire and a suspected arson attack.
On the streets of Wearside, Northumbria Police traffic cops Brian English and Simon Pawsey respond to a drugs bust before attempting to comfort a potential suicide victim, unaware he may be armed.
The Coastguard helicopter teams at Lee-on-Solent respond to the crew of a Chinese container ship who need to be winched to safety as their vessel sinks after a collision.
