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Emergency Call

True stories. Actual calls. Real Heroes.

  • 2020 – 2021
  • Ended
  • Reality · Drama · Documentary
  • ~41m / ep
  • 1 season
  • 8.3/10

This daring, hour-long documentary series chronicles the first few crucial minutes of emergencies told through the lens of America’s heroic 9-1-1 call takers.

Latest: Season 1 · 2020

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  1. E1. Take a Deep Breath

    Sep 28, 2020 · 35m

    A woman's car is stolen with her child in the backseat. A terrified 9-year-old performs CPR on her grandfather. Teenage hikers fend off a potential bear attack. A man is lost in the woods with barely any battery life left on his phone.

  2. E2. Conductors of Chaos

    Oct 5, 2020 · 35m

    A mother of three chokes on a spatula. A teenager is attacked at a bonfire party in the wilderness. A 2-year-old goes missing. Two women get stranded on the highway after their car is involved in back-to-back hit-and-runs.

  3. E3. Close to Home

    Oct 12, 2020 · 35m

    A badly injured teenage girl whose description matches that of a fellow dispatcher's daughter. A woman hides from her drunk and enraged husband. A veteran threatens self-harm. A man falls two-stories down onto a boat dock.

  4. E4. Crime spree

    Oct 19, 2020 · 34m

  5. E5. Headset Heroes

    Oct 26, 2020 · 41m

  6. E6. Texting Trouble

    Jun 4, 2021 · 41m

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