The WORST episodes of Rescue 911
Every episode of Rescue 911 ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Rescue 911!
Rescue 911 was a reality show hosted by William Shatner. The show consisted of re-enactments of emergency situations and documentaries of hospitals, police, and firefighters. The show ran for seven seasons on CBS from 1989 to 1996.
#1 - Episode 512
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/1993
Girls, after dialing the wrong number, call an elderly man with chest pains during Christmas; Farmer/Doctor has a hay bail fall on him; Child accidentally starts Chirstmas tree fire; Intruder gets stuck in the chimney (January 4, 1993. Oceanside, California)
#2 - Episode 501
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1993
Truck crash frees 10 million bees (June 4, 1990. Douglas, Georgia); Suicidal woman takes hostages so police will shoot her (July 21, 1992. Beaumont, Texas); Dog trapped in dryer vent (Christmas Holidays. Tualatin, Oregon); Mother finds her baby girl face down in the bathtub (June 10, 1991. Walla Walla, Washington)
#3 - Episode 502
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1993
Teens in car hit by train (November 11, 1991. Seymour, Iowa); Man struck by lightning (September 5, 1991. Lakeside, California); Man discovers a bobcat in his house (March 25, 1993. San Clemente, California); Child chokes on penny (October 1990. Northlake, Illinois)
#4 - Episode 503
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1993
Crash victim trapped in burning car while his wife goes into labor (March 21, 1991. Clackamas County, Oregon); Robber takes restaurant employees hostage (March 5, 1992. Greenville, North Carolina); Dog alerts neighbors when toddler falls in river (July 6, 1992. Colorado River); A victim of a motorcycle accident is a treated at a San Diego hospital (January 26, 1992. San Diego, California)
#5 - Episode 508
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1993
Man falls into gorge (June 29, 1992. White River Junction, Vermont); Dump truck carrying hot asphalt overturns on occupied car (April 23, 1990. Grafton, West Virginia); When a toddler falls ill, responding firefighters discover a family has been poisoned by carbon monoxide (November 4, 1992. Colorado Springs, Colorado); Man finds wife near her wrecked car (June 23, 1992. Napoleon, Indiana)
#6 - Episode 505
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1993
#7 - Episode 506
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1993
#8 - Episode 509H
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1993
Missing girl is discovered clinging to the back of a moving truck (March 28, 1993. Walconda, Illinois); Cop shot while on patrol (November 13, 1991. Dallas, Texas)
#9 - Episode 510
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1993
Boy drives ATV over embankment (July 1, 1992. Holland, Ohio); Woman at home alone reports intruders (December 30, 1991. Knoxville, Tennessee); Boy pinned by tool box (March 24, 1993. Hamlet, Indiana); Child diagnosed with aplastic anemia needs bone marrow transplant (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
#10 - 200 Lives Saved
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1993
Christmas tree catches fire, trapping family in basement (December 20, 1992. Dover-Foxcroft, Maine); Toddler impaled through throat with toothbrush (January 12, 1993. Germantown, Maryland); Girl stops runaway car when her mother collapses at the wheel (July 1, 1993. Sacramento, California); First grader saves his friend who chokes on candy (February 22, 1993. Arcola, Mississippi)
#11 - Episode 511
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/1993
Two women in suburban stranded in flooded river (May 9, 1993. Gainesville, Texas); Girl calls 911 for ailing mother with endometriosis (February 7, 1992. South Bend, Indiana); Boy gets tongue stuck in canteen (June 16, 1993. Union, Maine); A boy who fell from a barn roof is treated at Kosair Children's Hospital (August 13, 1993. Louisville, Kentucky)
#12 - Episode 504
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1993
Snowmobiler falls through thin ice (December 19, 1992. Minnetrista, Minnesota); Members of the Acadian Air Med service pick up a victim of a speedboat accident and a child burned by hot grease (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Sisters at home alone report intruder (December 22, 1992. Lexington, North Carolina); Firefighter has heart attack (July 26, 1991. Kilgore, Texas)
#13 - Episode 427 (Child Safety Edition)
Season 4 - Episode 28 - Aired 5/25/1993
Girl run over by school bus (November 4, 1991. Blountville, Tennessee); Baby drowns in bleach bucket (November 21, 1990. Lebanon, Oregon); Girl on bicycle hit by car (October 9, 1989. Cheltenham, Pennsylvania); A boy scalded by hot grease and girl who ingested lamp oil are treated at Children's National Medical Center (Washington, D.C.)
#14 - Episode 513
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/4/1994
Uncertified scuba Diver runs out of air (Seattle, Washington); A stabbing victim and a father and son injured in a motorcycle accident are treated at the University of Louisville Hospital and Kosair Children's Hospital (August 13, 1993. Louisville, Kentucky); Kindergartner calls 911 when she returns home and her parents are not there (January 15, 1993. Owosso, Michigan); Paramedics come across an injured man who is the grandfather of a patient they are transporting to the hospital (June 12, 1992. Shelbyville, Tennessee)
#15 - Episode 514
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1994
Mother trapped on burning boat after it explodes (June 21, 1991. San Diego, California); Teenager shoots himself after a fight with his dad (March 11, 1993. Helendale, California); Domestic violence suspect shoots police dog (February 25, 1992. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada); Dispatcher chokes on candy while alone in office (September 11, 1990. Mathews, Virginia)
#16 - Episode 515
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/18/1994
#17 - Episode 516
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/1/1994
#18 - Episode 517
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/8/1994
#19 - Episode 518
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/8/1994
Boy collapses in gym class (October 29, 1992. Nyack, New York); Documentary of a Norwegian family who donated their daughters organs after she died in a car accident (beginning on July 5, 1993. Las Vegas, Nevada)
#20 - Episode 519
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/15/1994
Girl trapped under car in muddy ditch (April 5, 1992. Mobile, Alabama); Teenager hits his head while diving into a lake and becomes paralyzed (March 4, 1990. Lake Jewel, Florida); Woman bitten by barracuda (July 9, 1993. Islamorada, Florida); Neighbor performs CPR on a toddler who drowned in a swimming pool (August 16, 1993. Burlington, Vermont)
#21 - Episode 520
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/22/1994
Man unconscious in burning house (December 13, 1992. Rogers, Arkansas); Four-year-old boy chokes on peas (August 23, 1993. Calgary, Alberta, Canada); Water truck runs over boy on rollerblades (July 20, 1992. Corona, California); Teenager collapses after inhaling butane (April 11, 1992. Tulsa, Oklahoma)
#22 - Episode 521 (Animal Rescues Edition)
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/29/1994
Suspect stabs police dog (March 8, 1993. Modesto, California); Pig trapped in burning house (October 14, 1993. The Dalles, Oregon); A poodle and a horse are treated at a U.C. Davis animal medical center (July 30, 1993. Davis, California); Stray puppy trapped in storm drain (July 27, 1993. Corpus Christi, Texas)
#23 - Episode 522
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/5/1994
Two boys electrocuted at pool (May 30, 1993. Pembroke Pines, Florida); Fireman falls through ceiling into burning house (August 30, 1993. Tulsa, Oklahoma); Dog chokes on ball (September 7, 1993. Presque Isle, Maine); Boy sustains head injury from ATV accident (August 16, 1989. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
#24 - Episode 523
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/3/1994
Boy and father attacked by crocodile (May 1, 1986. Zimbabwe, Africa); Cop crashes into tree while pursuing speeding car (April 2, 1993. Austin, Texas); Boy and mother stuck in tree (October 16, 1993. Millville Pennsylvania); Ice hockey player collides with another player and receives a severe head injury (March 14, 1992. Plattsburgh, New York)
#25 - Episode 415
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/9/1993
Hang glider crashes into forest (July 30, 1989. Sauratown Mountain near Winston Salem, North Carolina); Woman shot by neighbor (August 19, 1991. Indianapolis, Indiana); Dog bitten by rattlesnakes (September 7, 1992. Loveland, Colorado); Girl falls from hotel balcony (April 10, 1992. Gulf Shores, Alabama)