A teenage boy lies on the pavement bleeding to death from a stab wound; a distraught mum watches in mute shock as her daughter suffers a terrifying fatal asthma attack; a young girl is gang raped & her stricken boyfriend takes an overdose; a disturbed young man flings himself in front of a speeding train at the stroke of midnight on New Years Eve. Few people can imagine living in a world where such situations are part of everyday life. Yet for London Ambulance Paramedic Lysa Walder these & thousands of other emergency call outs are part of a days work: scenes of tragedy loss & horror
- but also stories of triumph & humour & all the results of an urgent 999 call to the biggest & busiest free ambulance service in the world. Lysa has been an A&E nurse & paramedic for over 15 years. Here she tells the inside story behind the screaming sirens & flashing blue lights of the emergency services & reveals what its really like to work in a job that frequently brings paramedic teams face-to-face with death
- & destiny.