Episode 5

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.

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.