Usually, segments begin with people going about their daily lives leading to some person(s) becoming involved in a situation that causes an emergency, followed by citizens' responses to it, leading to an emergency services (police/fire/medical) response, followed by (maybe) a few scenes from the hospital, and concluding with a 'Where Are They Now?' Epilogue. Each episode consisted of a few segments, each with its own reenactment of a true story interspersed with talking head interviews from the real life participants. The show aired on CBS from 1989 to 1996, and took its material from late 1980s and early 1990s cases. 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.
Whenever possible, the actual people involved have helped us reconstruct the events as they happened.' All of the 911 calls you will hear are real. 'This program contains true stories of rescues.
