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Season 1

  • S01E01 Episode 1

    Tonight the unsung hero's of Auckland's Westpac Rescue 1 Helicopter attend a truck roll in the Karangahake Gorge, that's left a 41 year old father of two crushed under the cab and in a serious condition.

  • S01E02 Episode 2

    It's another hot summers day and the calls keep on rolling in for the crews of Rescue 1. A 42-year-old male has come off his Quad bike during an endurance motocross race on a remote farm south of Raglan.

  • S01E03 Episode 3

    The Rescue 1 crew head for Clarks Beach where while playing with his twin brother 4 year old Daniel has fallen, thrusting a stick through his jugular vein. Daniel is struggling to breathe and has massive internal bleeding.

  • S01E04 Episode 4

    It's Paul Daniels lucky day when Rescue 1 gets diverted from a routine status 3 trip to the beachside town of Whitianga

  • S01E05 Episode 5

    Mission 1 and Pilot Dave Walley, crewman John Skirrow and chief paramedic Barry Watkin fight atrocious weather as they uplift a 53-year-old male from Surfdale, who has head and chest pain after a high-speed fall from a pushbike without a helmet

  • S01E06 Episode 6

    The Rescue 1 crew rush south of Auckland where CPR is in progress after a 46 year old man jumped off the dangerous and unforgiving Hunua Fall while on a day out with the family. Medic Bruce Kerr fights to avoid a tragic outcome.

  • S01E07 Episode 7

    As summer rolls on so do the call outs for the crews of Rescue 1. First they must rush to the popular beach resort of Whangamata to pick up a patient with suspected head and spinal injuries after a fall from a ladder

  • S01E08 Episode 8

    Tonight on Rescue 1 the crew pick up 54-year-old Jack Mathews for the second time of the summer. 6 weeks earlier Jack fell from his bike fracturing his C4 vertebrae leaving him in a HALO

Season 2

  • S02E01 Episode 1

    • January 1, 2009

    Auckland's Westpac helicopter crew races to save two teenage girls fighting for their lives after their car crashed and rolled off the Waiwera Hill

  • S02E02 Episode 2

    It's another hot summer's day and the calls keep rolling in for Rescue 1.

  • S02E03 Episode 3

    On Great Mercury Island near Coromandel, a scuba diver has surfaced unconscious without a pulse. Without Rescue 1 he may soon be dead

  • S02E04 Episode 4

    Tonight, the Rescue 1 team respond to a call out where an elderly couple in their 60's, are in a critical condition after a head on collision.

  • S02E05 Episode 5

    A truck driver, who had one leg amputated 40 years ago, has crashed his truck and crushed his remaining leg - if Rescue One can't get him to hospital in time, he will bleed to death

  • S02E06 Episode 6

    Westpac chopper paramedic Bruce Kerr has a frantic battle to save a car crash victim with a life-threatening head injury.

  • S02E07 Episode 7

    Tonight, Auckland's Westpac helicopter crew races to save a 39 year old forestry worker who has been struck on the head leaving him paralyzed from the waste down

  • S02E08 Episode 8

    The chopper crew races to save a woman with a rare disease who's in danger of suffocating from uncontrollable muscle spasms; a badly burnt toddler at Cooks Beach needs an urgent airlift to hospita

  • S02E09 Episode 9

    The chopper team is called out to save a pilot who's trapped in the wreck of his hang glider; a diabetic bus driver is found seriously ill after four days lying on his floor

  • S02E10 Episode 10

    Tonight, The Rescue 1 team are en route to the scene of a horrific accident. A pedestrian has been hit by a truck and is in a critical condition

  • S02E11 Episode 11

    A woman is badly hurt after being knocked down a bank by her pet goat, a man is found with serious injuries on a remote beach, an 11-year old girl has fallen down a bank and suffered suspected spinal

  • S02E12 Episode 12

    The chopper team is called out to save a motorbike racer who's crashed at 200ks per hour and a woman scalded by an exploding radiator, plus an elderly golfer in a kilt suffers a heart attack on the 18th

  • S02E13 Episode 13

    A 39-year-old man has crashed his bike 15 kilometers south of Auckland city, and an elderly man has collapsed while walking. He is unable to speak properly and is incoherent at Waiheke Island.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Episode 1

    The Rescue1 chopper team struggle to save a Paeroa farmer

  • S03E02 Episode 2

    Tropical rain has hit Wellsford, flooding the entire town and leaving a pregnant woman and her unborn child fighting for their lives

  • S03E03 Episode 3

    An 11-year-old girl has ended up under an overturned boat.

  • S03E04 Episode 4

    A Glenbrook farmer has been left seriously injured after one of his Highland cows has taken to him with its horns

  • S03E05 Episode 5

    The team are being sent out to a traumatic accident that will end up being rather close to home

  • S03E06 Episode 6

    The Rescue chopper team is en route to Whitianga to help save a badly injured stock car driver.

  • S03E07 Episode 7

    The chopper team are about to take off to rescue a seriously injured man.

  • S03E08 Episode 8

    The chopper team is responding to a life threatening emergency

  • S03E09 Episode 9

    The team have received a status 2 callout; Mark Lorimer was knocked out and has multiple injuries after being hit head-on by another vehicle

  • S03E10 Episode 10

    The team are called to a road accident where a woman has been cut from inside of her wrecked car.

Season 4

  • S04E01 Episode 1

    Tonight, the Rescue1 chopper team struggle to save two young men who are feared drowned at Hahei; a Coromandel motorcyclist is struggling with punctured lungs

  • S04E02 Episode 2

    A teenage motorcyclist is fighting for his life after crashing on a remote farm near Warkworth, a man has 2nd degree burns to his face and hands from an accidental explosion

  • S04E03 Episode 3

    The Rescue1 team battle to save a man trapped in his overturned Land-Rover on Rakino Island; a star rugby player at Onewhero may have broken his neck after a scrum collapsed

  • S04E04 Episode 4

    The chopper team has an intense struggle to keep a young Waikato woman alive after her car collided with a heavy truck, an 18 year old man is in terrible pain with a dislocated shoulder

  • S04E05 Episode 5

    The Westpac chopper crew attempt to save a Waiheke man who has life-threatening injuries after falling off a ladder; a motocross rider is in a bad way after a 100-foot jump goes badly wrong

  • S04E06 Episode 6

    The helicopter rescue crew responds to Pauanui to save a truck driver who's smashed through the windscreen after rolling his truck;

  • S04E07 Episode 7

    The chopper crewmen have their hands full with five badly injured patients after a car crash near Waiuku, and a massive motorcycle pile-up leaves injured bikers all over the road,

  • S04E08 Episode 8

    As a weather bomb hits, the chopper crew set out on one of the most challenging missions they have ever undertaken 20 miles off shore, a man lays face down at Muriwai beach unable to move,

  • S04E09 Episode 9

    A hang glider pilot may have broken his back after a heavy crash-landing, a Manaia man is in a bad way after coming off a sea biscuit at high speed

  • S04E10 Episode 10

    A motocross rider may have broken his back after hitting a tree head on at high speed, at a sawmill a man faces its worse nightmares

  • S04E11 Episode 11

    The team is responding to a life-threatening emergency, A cyclist in his 60s, Terrence Williams, is unresponsive and critical after an accident 15 minutes flying time from Auckland

  • S04E12 Episode 12

    The team are called out to a status 2 emergency; Clark Chamberlain was abseiling when he fell from the top of a cliff to the ground. He's now in a critical condition suffering from multiple injuries.

  • S04E13 Episode 13

    The team are responding to reports of a life-or death emergency; Jim Te Whata has been pulled from the water cold, unconscious and not breathing