Explore the high-pressure experiences of police officers, paramedics and firefighters who are thrust into the most frightening, shocking and heart-stopping situations. These emergency responders must try to balance saving those who are at their most vulnerable with solving the problems in their own lives.
This tv show contains 74 potentially triggering events.
- Doug Kendall stalks Chimney Han before stabbing him & leaving him for dead then kidnapping Maddie in the season 2 Christmas episode & Chimney Begins until Buck finds him on his sister's doorstep;
- Maddie Buckley stalks a woman & her husband who made 3 9-1-1 calls in season 3. Multiple people question her motives. Maddie doesn't stop "trying to save the woman" until she realises that even after a nearly fatal altercation that she phoned for, the woman doesn't want to leave her husband. She deals with this in therapy.
- Maddie goes through an abuse storyline at the hands of her ex-husband throughout season 2. She kills him in self-defense in the Christmas episode of that season. She actively seeks therapy in season 3 & moves on around the Christmas episode of that season;
- Josh becomes a victim of a brutal robbery in what he thought to be a date in the season 3 Halloween episode. He has a lot of visible bruises. He is very traumatised from the whole incident. Later in the season he is confronted with the man again when they hold the 9-1-1 operation centre hostage to commit a heist in an art museum nearby. He still saves the man's life after he almost dies. He contemplates not testifying in his court case but eventually does. The man gets sentenced to jail;
- Athena gets into an altercation with the serial rapist she's investigating until he shoots her in the penultimate episode of season 3. She sustains facial injuries such as a swollen eye & her arm is encasted. The man is arrested.
- From the season 4 premiere until season 4 episode 4, it is revealed that Evan Buckley experienced emotional negligence from Maddie & his parents. In the 4th episode, he yells at them for not loving him enough
Bobby is revealed to be a recovering drug addict at the start of the show. He relapses by accident when he, Buck, Eddie & Hen eat LCD-laced brownies. In a delirious state he reveals to Athena - his fiancée at the time - that he "wants this feeling to be real". She talks him through the trip & tells him "they can be real together". He doesn't relapse after that incident again.
In season 1, a main character goes to see a therapist while recovering from sex addiction and a recent trauma of seeing someone fall to their death. He has sex with his therapist during the session, which is legally sexual assault due to the power dynamic and the character not being in the right headspace to consent. The show does not portray this as SA and plays it for laughs a couple times in the show.
Buck's sleeping with his therapist is played for laughs, despite the fact he was in the wrong headspace to sleep with her & she comitted a violation of her work by sleeping with a client
Eddie gets buried alive in Eddie Begins - a Season 3 episode - by extreme weather condition, a crane & mud collapsing.
SPOILER: he makes it out alive by swimming through a body of water to the surface just before drowning.
In season 4 episode 4, Maddie Buckley reveals to her brother Evan that they had an older brother called Daniel who died sometime in 1988. That was before Buck was born as he's confirmed to be 29 in that episode
A 14 year old girl takes prescribed pills in season 1 with the intention of committing suicide. She is not shown taking the pills, but it does show her mother finding her and calling 911. She survives and recovers mentally and physically. Later in the series, we hear her mother’s conversation with the 911 operator and they dicuss the suicide attempt.
- Hen Wilson's father dies in season 2, she's the one who has to decide on putting him off life support;
- Christopher Diaz' mother Sharon dies in Eddie's arms at the end of season 2;
- There's an episode in season 3 where several people discuss the death of women who were mothers such as: 2 brothers who nearly lose their mother in a car hanging from a cliff, Chimney Han about his mother's death after rescuing the oldest brother, 2 sisters who argue about a ring that belonged to their late mother & Eddie about Sharon Diaz - Christopher's mom.
in season 2 episode 5 around the 14 minute mark a racist man vomits on his own waste. then in episode 6 season 2 there was a bug eating contest and a man starts chocking on a clump of crickets. the firefighters pull it out but then a little girl starts to cough up bugs. season 2 episode 12 about 20:10 minutes in a man vomits all over Chimney. visual seen and audio heard. again in episode 12 season 2 at the very end (about 43 minutes) a man vomits into a bag. season 3 episode 1 about 13 minutes in starts coughing up blood, he coughs up quite a bit and it never speed out but he does cough a lot. it bothered me a bit. season 3 episode 3 a man suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning vomits on the ground. no visual, only audio. also in episode 3 of season 3 a little boy starts to cough a lot, then he starts to choke. he coughs up a lot of water and seaweed. then they take him away. (not technically vomit, but it did bother me.) season 3 episode 12 the first case they are on the guy seems like he might puke but he doesn’t, nothing even close i promise. just wanted to let people know.
In the 2nd half of season 3 Michael Grant is dealing with a brain tumour. There is good news in the season finale regarding it but I don't remember what it was.
- Multiple minor characters throughout the course of the show die via suicide including a woman in season 4 episode 4 who in a freak accident accidentally shoots herself in the stomach
- May Grant purposely overdoses with the intent to commit suicide in season 1 episode 3 after being bullied in school for a boy she liked. It is mentioned again exactly 3 seasons later when she reveals Sue has her go to monthly therapy sessions she agreed to out of precaution due to her job as a 9-1-1 operator
A pregnant woman does end up unconcious & bleeding from her abdomen in a car trunk & her baby being removed before actually going into labour. They however both survive as the case gets solved in the same episode in season 3.
In an episode in season 2 (I don't remember which one), a patient refuses treatment of:
- Hen - 118's paramedic - because she's a black lesbian woman;
- Chimney - 118's paramedic - because he is an Asian man;
- Eddie - 118's firefighter - almost treats the patient, until he reveals his last name to be "Diaz" which is Hispanic/Latino. The patient also rejects being treated by him because of this.
Eventually Buck - 118's firefighter - treats the man as he's white, male, his sexuality is assumed to be straight (his is never confirmed so it might be false) & says his last name's "Buckley". The man deems him "a true American" & allows him to treat him.
Everyone of the 118 - including Bobby & Buck - are irritated about this incident.
- There's also an episode in season 3 that has racial profiling towards Michael, May & Harry Grant where a cop almost kills Harry when he sees him move to a sitting position. May makes her paper about Athena being an enemy as she is a cop. Michael struggles with accepting the fact he has to give Harry the talk about what he as a black boy should do if he's stopped by the police. Athena deals with the fallout her family has & how thanks to her a lot has changed already but that there is still work to be done.
A child with cerebral palsy deals with an absent mother and a teacher (that later turns into his dad's girlfriend) that doesn't try to adapt to his limitations ("There's a lot to be said for getting back on the horse, but there's also some value in learning that you don't like horses.") and calls him "sensitive."
Relationship in season 1 between a 26-year-old and a person in their mid-40s. The older person ghosts the younger person without ever breaking up with them.
Sexual content doesn't occur often, it is never explicit when it gets shown. If there is nudity in such a scene, it only shows their shoulders or their lower backs at best.
Might have other instances of car crashes too:
- Shannon - Christopher's mother, Eddie's ex-wife - gets hit by a car while crossing the road in Season 2, she dies in Eddie's arms;
- A car crashes into the back of the 118's firetruck after it's revealed he couldn't slow down no matter how he tried in Season 3. The character gets out of the car with minor injuries;
- A woman & her 2 sons almost plummet from a ravine ledge in Season 3. The 118 saves manages to save all 3 occupants of the car;
- In the Season 3 Halloween Episode a woman collides with another person. Due to the bump on her head & disillusionment coming from the head injury, she doesn't notice & isn't stopped until the very end of the episode by Buck who is lucky enough to spot her at a gas station;
- Hen commits accidental vehicular manslaughter in Season 3.
Might have forgotten a few:
- Shannon - Chris' mom, Eddie's ex-wife - dies in Season 2 after being hit by a car;
- In the Season 3 Halloween episode a woman hits a man with her car & sustains a head-injury that leaves her severely disillusioned with her surroundings that she doesn't register the man is stuck in her windshield. This goes on for the entire episode until Buck spots her at the gas station at the very end.
It used to be somewhat tame in seasons 1 & 2 but blood/gore becomes a lot more commonplace from season 3 onwards.
If it triggers you, I'd suggest to watch the season very carefully because it is in about every episode.
In the first 3 episodes of season 3, the story deals with a tsunami.
Buck spots several floating corpses, he shields Christopher - Eddie's child - from seeing them as well.
Eddie almost drowns in Eddie Begins but makes it out by swimming through a body of water to the surface.
Athena Grant gets shot in the middle of the altercation with the serial rapist she was investigating & tracking down in the penultimate episode of season 3. She survives.
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