The episode begins with Gage having insomnia. He thinks it's because they haven't had a night run in a while. Insomnia talk is like a buffer between emergency runs and hospital goings on. It's revisited four times during the episode and ends with Gage going on a run that involves the fire truck only to try and break the spell. As filler material between the runs goes, it's not bad.
The first run is a man in a boat on a trailer in the middle of the road. A butane tank exploded. Not terribly exciting or interesting.
Brackett treats a boy who was in a car accident. He has a bad head injury but is diagnosed and taken care of in short order. I thought it was going to end up being child abuse, but it didn't.
The next run concerns a man named Dan acting crazy in a computer room. He has to be tackled by Gage before he and DeSoto can treat him. Veteran actor Ronnie Schell plays Dan's work friend who says Dan's drug use is limited to marijuana. Everyone is skeptical of this because Dan is showing what Brackett says is signs of a heroin overdose.
It turns out that Dan grew his own pot and treated it with the commercial insecticide parathion; the handling of which made him crazy. Watching the episode, I was yelling at the characters to have Dan's pot checked for contaminants every time Ronnie Schell insisted that Dan's drug use was limited to marijuana. So the ultimate answer was obvious (to me anyway).
The paramedics' next call is a man who was in the back of a loading dock for semi trucks when someone backed a truck up, pinning him between truck and dock. He's happy and chatty as the paramedics arrive, and it's concluded that the truck trailer is acting like a tourniquet, and when the truck is removed he will bleed internally. That happens, sure enough, but the man is saved anyway.
The marquis rescue is of a man and child trapped in a gravel pit. The man is pulled out quickly. Rescue of the boy takes longer, but he's fine in the end.
As marquis rescues go it was a bit below average.
This is followed by a bit of a tease, as the station alarm goes off, and I was thinking, "Okay, maybe THIS is the marquis rescue." But it was just the set-up for Gage to join the firefighters on their run to cure his insomnia.
Viewers don't get to see how this worked out, though, as the episode ends with the fire truck leaving the station and Gage standing on the back of it.
The first run is a man in a boat on a trailer in the middle of the road. A butane tank exploded. Not terribly exciting or interesting.
Brackett treats a boy who was in a car accident. He has a bad head injury but is diagnosed and taken care of in short order. I thought it was going to end up being child abuse, but it didn't.
The next run concerns a man named Dan acting crazy in a computer room. He has to be tackled by Gage before he and DeSoto can treat him. Veteran actor Ronnie Schell plays Dan's work friend who says Dan's drug use is limited to marijuana. Everyone is skeptical of this because Dan is showing what Brackett says is signs of a heroin overdose.
It turns out that Dan grew his own pot and treated it with the commercial insecticide parathion; the handling of which made him crazy. Watching the episode, I was yelling at the characters to have Dan's pot checked for contaminants every time Ronnie Schell insisted that Dan's drug use was limited to marijuana. So the ultimate answer was obvious (to me anyway).
The paramedics' next call is a man who was in the back of a loading dock for semi trucks when someone backed a truck up, pinning him between truck and dock. He's happy and chatty as the paramedics arrive, and it's concluded that the truck trailer is acting like a tourniquet, and when the truck is removed he will bleed internally. That happens, sure enough, but the man is saved anyway.
The marquis rescue is of a man and child trapped in a gravel pit. The man is pulled out quickly. Rescue of the boy takes longer, but he's fine in the end.
As marquis rescues go it was a bit below average.
This is followed by a bit of a tease, as the station alarm goes off, and I was thinking, "Okay, maybe THIS is the marquis rescue." But it was just the set-up for Gage to join the firefighters on their run to cure his insomnia.
Viewers don't get to see how this worked out, though, as the episode ends with the fire truck leaving the station and Gage standing on the back of it.
