During National EMS Week, the New Orleans emergency response technicians face challenges including a car accident victim trapped beneath a vehicle, another pedestrian hit by a car, and a man with a prior cardiac history experiencing worrying chest pains.

Saturday night fever grips New Orleans as the EMTs respond to a gruesome stabbing, an assault with a beer bottle, a car accident involving an infant, and a combative patient who tries biting the hands that treat him.

New Orleans EMT responders face the darkness of death and the joy of life in one whirlwind episode. They go from treating gunshot victims and car accident patients to delivering a baby - with one of the technicians expecting a baby of her own.

On a night that leaves the EMT crew holding its breath, the first responders aid patients suffering from a strange assortment of afflictions, from being impaled by wood to getting thrown from a moving vehicle.

EMT first responders must expect the unexpected as a wild series of calls include a man stabbed in the head, a screaming woman who has stumbled onto a New Orleans levee, and a car accident that has resulted in an overturned vehicle with a victim trapped inside.

The first responders treat a series of major car accidents, a Brazilian soccer player with a knee injury and a hallucinating man with chest pains.

The New Orleans EMT team treats a motorcycle accident victim in danger of losing a limb, multiple seizure sufferers, a young child with a breathing obstruction, and a perpetrator with a dangerous condition.

Strange events are afoot across New Orleans, as the first responders must treat a stabbing and a dog bite on Bourbon Street, a pregnant woman in distress, and an overturned vehicle that could go from bad to worse.

A strange Mardi Gras sees the cancellation of traditional parades--but not the end of emergencies, as the EMT crew responds to a vehicle-streetcar collision, a motorcycle accident, a house fire, and potential cardiac arrest.