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999: What's Your Emergency? (2012)

999: What's Your Emergency? poster
Genre
documentary television program
Country
United Kingdom
Length
14 seasons, 78 episodes
Rated
18+
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series shows what happens when people call for help. It follows police, paramedics, and firefighters as they respond to emergencies across the UK.

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What happens

999: What's Your Emergency? is a British television documentary. Broadcast on Channel 4, the show provides insight into modern Britain through the eyes of the emergency services, using a mixture of fly-on-the-wall footage taken at incidents and retrospective interviews with the people and staff featured. The show is narrated by Hugo Speer, with the exception of Series 2 which was narrated by Julian Barratt. Series 1 followed police officers, paramedics, firefighters, and call handlers in Blackpool, Lancashire. Series 2 followed paramedics throughout the UK. Series 3 followed police officers, paramedics, and call handlers in Cheshire. From Series 4 to Series 11, the show followed police officers, paramedics, call handlers, and occasionally firefighters in Wiltshire and Northamptonshire. Series 12 onwards, the programme has followed police officers and call handlers in South Yorkshire and Northamptonshire police. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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