History Series / Rescue911

* BeeAfraid:
** "Swarm Save": A flatbed truck transporting beehives tips over in the middle of the night, and the swarms of agitated bees attack the driver and the rescue personnel. It's mentioned that the driver retires from beekeeping after the incident.
** "911 Honeybee Horror": While mowing some property, a man agitates a hive of feral honeybees. Again, the bees swarm the victim and the rescue personnel, and they have to call in some beekeepers to help evacuate the victim.

* DancePartyEnding: The WhereAreTheyKnowEpilogue for "Pinellas [=EMS=]" is mostly comprised of a dance party where the (recovering) victim and his friends dance to country music.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** The show never said whether the men who were scaring the babysitter in "911 Baby Sitter Prowler" were tracked down or arrested.
** A somewhat example with "Arlington 911": the show downright says that the intruder's accomplice [[Main/FridgeHorror was never caught]].
** "Rip Tide Rescue": the second man who went to save the woman was never identified, and nobody knows where he went.
** "911 Lansing Stabbing" doesn't say if the intruder was found or arrested, or even still at large. Some will think of this as pure FridgeHorror.
** "Christmas Ornament Fire" never states what happened to the family dog. Another dog is seen with them in the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, either implying that they got a new dog as the old one died in the fire or the producers replaced the family dog with an trained stunt dog.
** The driver of the van that hit the bike-riding girl in "No Helmet Horror" is only mentioned as having sat "stunned" in her vehicle, and nothing else. Not even if she received any criminal charges or not.

* {{MAD}}: "Miscue 911"

When originally aired on CBS, episodes were typically an hour long, although segments could (and would) be trimmed to create half-hour or even quarter-hour episodes, depending on how much time the network needed to fill. A half-hour version later aired in syndication. Creator/JusticeNetwork started airing the show in late 2017.

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* CaliforniaDoubling: The show rarely, if ever used this trope. One of the few examples was in "Runaway Truck" - the actual incident recreated was in Nova Scotia but according to a Website/YouTube comment by the daughter of one of the truckers involved the episode was shot in California.

** Rip Tide rescue, the second man who went to save the woman was never identified, and nobody knows where he went.

** ''Any'' of the burns. There's one where hot grease is spilled on a baby and the ''grandmother'' gets burns on ''her'' hands, too.

* UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents[=/=]UsefulNotes/CanadianAccents: Because the majority of episodes feature incidents from all over the United States and Canada, a wide spectrum of North American anglophone accents can be heard throughout the series.

* CaliforniaDoubling: The show rarely, if ever used this trope. One of the few examples was in "Runaway Truck" - the actual incident recreated was in Nova Scotia but according to a YouTube comment by the daughter of one of the truckers involved the episode was shot in California.

* HumiliationConga: A RealLife example happened to the titular crook from "Chimney Trapped Crook." First, he got stuck in the fireplace after [[WhatAnIdiot trying to break in through the chimney]] right around Christmastime. Then the homeowners called the police, who showed up and had a good laugh. Then a fire/rescue crew showed up, and ''they'' all had a good laugh. Then the homeowners started taking some pictures to send to friends and family, further adding to the humiliation. Then, after spending half the night upside down, he is freed from the chimney--only to get tackled by some cops and firemen, arrested, and (later) sentenced. THEN some producers made an episode of ''Rescue 911'' about it...

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: A recurring theme is people who pull through despite slim prognoses that they'll survive their horrific injuries. Justified as the point of the series is to show that these people do survive because they get help in time.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The show never said whether the men who were scaring the babysitter in "911 Baby Sitter Prowler" were tracked down or arrested.

* AdultFear: Your kid could get struck by lightning, get run over by a school bus, drown, hide from dangerous burglars, fall out of a multistory building, choke on something, get burned, get electrocuted, get shot...pleasant dreams!

* LicensedPinballTable: Made by Creator/{{Gottlieb}} in 1994, and fairly well-regarded to boot. [[Pinball/{{Rescue 911}} Click here for details.]]
* ManipulativeEditing: In one episode, a kid fell in a frozen river and was stuck underwater for about 45 minutes. One YouTube commenter pointed out that the kid actually had shoplifted and was running away, and the media painted it as a rescue. In real life, he faced no charges for what he did because of what happened.

* OhCrap: A common reaction by 911 operators and paramedics when they discover how severely someone is injured, or by the victims themselves when they realize something bad is about to happen.

''Rescue 911'' was a TV show that re-enacted true stories of people involved in emergency medical situations--it showed how the situation occurred, what happened, how other people helped, how emergency services got involved, and the aftermath of what happened.

The show was hosted by Creator/WilliamShatner.

** Once we see that the victim is all right, we get a talking head interview with that person. Soft, happy music would play as we see a WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, typically culminating in a FreezeFrameEnding showing everyone happy.