

Rescue 77 is an American television series about the professional and personal lives of paramedics in Los Angeles, California. The show aired in the spring of 1999 on Monday nights on the WB network. The creator and executive producer was Gregory Widen, a former Southern California firefighter and paramedic, and the writer of the 1991 firefighting drama Backdraft. His goal for the show was to provide a more realistic depiction of the lives of firefighters and paramedics than previous emergency medical television series such as Emergency!.
Wick Lobo and Michael Bell welcome back their partner, Kathleen Ryan, after a stress-related leave of absence. They save men from a building that exploded. Ryan makes a heroic save of a man in a downed airplane that falls down a mountain. A woman that the team has visited before dies from being shot by her boyfriend.
Aired: 3/15/1999Stations 27 and 77 are playing pranks on each other. A Russian woman's grandfather has chest pains. The squad rescues a teenager who falls while trying to hang a banner at his high school. Wick, Michael, and Ryan are caught in sniper fire while later answering a false alarm at the same high school. The shooter shows up at the station. Ryan deals with her ex-boyfriend.
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