Coming on the heels of “Save My Life: Boston Trauma,” which debuted last Sunday, is the premiere of “Boston EMS,” a five-part series delivering an intimate portrait of the proud men and women from one of America’s most seasoned group of first responders. “Boston EMS” premieres Saturday, July 25 (10:00-11:00 p.m., Eastern/Pacific) on the ABC Television Network.
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In episode one, cameras arrive at a harrowing scene of a car accident that has left a bicyclist dead and a driver having fled the scene. Paramedics remove from the wreckage a critically injured passenger. The young man pleads with them to tell him whether the bicyclist on the street survived or not — an answer they know but can’t reveal.
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Also in this episode: a man pulls himself out of a crashed car before it erupts into flames; a pair of accommodating EMTs surprise a barefoot homeless man with an unexpected gift; a tearful woman confides to an EMT about the devastating loss of her boyfriend whom it turns out he has a connection to; and it’s all hands on deck as first responders scour the pitch-dark train tracks for a possible patient hit by the Acela express.
“Boston EMS is fazed by nothing. We have seen them extricate people from under cars, trains and fallen buildings. We have seen grateful patients and very disagreeable ones,” says Executive Producer Terence Wrong. “They handle all jobs with courtesy and aplomb.”
