INSIDE THE AMBULANCE AT CHRISTMAS
W, 8pm
THIS festive edition is just as gruelling as any other – except that some of the paramedics are wearing Santa hats or reindeer antlers in the ambulance.
Cameras follow crews from West Midlands Ambulance Service as they work around the clock during Christmas and New Year, one of their busiest and most challenging times.
Showing every day this week, tonight’s opener begins with Laura and Anna being called to help 79-year-old Bernard who has fallen 14ft off a ladder, hitting a wall on the way down. He’s conscious but having chest pains.
Meanwhile, Chris and Aaron are helping Kate, 68, who is in excruciating pain with a suspected hernia.
But as they blue light her to hospital, they spot a car on fire.
They need to check no one is in the burning vehicle before they carry on their journey.
And elsewhere, 14-year-old Tara has fallen on ice on the way to school and needs an X-ray.