06x13 - An Ounce of Prevention

[bunniefuu]

CHET: Okay, Henry, think.

All right, Marco,
you've got to be real quiet.

Okay, Henry, think.

You got to concentrate,
Henry. Think real hard, Henry.

Concentrate very hard.

Chet. What are you doing?

Simple.

You see,
I think of a number of one of the boxes.

Then I try and get Henry to
push over the box that I thought.

Hmm. Why?

What do you mean,
why? I'm testing his ESP, that's why.

You're trying to test his ES...

You must be crazy.

How can you test his
extra-sensory perception

when he doesn't even
have sensory perception?

You want to bet?
Yeah, I'll bet you.

A dollar?

All right, a dollar. What?

All right, you pick out
one of the boxes,

pick a number
on one of the boxes.

Tell me.

Three. [SOFTLY] Three.

[SOFTLY] Three.

Okay, Henry. Now think.

Let's do it. Now, Henry.

That's a dollar.

How did he do that...

That's two dollars.

[MUMBLING]

Three dollars.

Good boy, Henry. Good boy.

How did he do that?

Well, that's simple.

He probably just smeared the
inside of the box with a little liver.

Oh, yeah?

Good boy, Henry.

Well, how did Chet know
which box I'd pick?

I don't know. Maybe he has ESP.

I just got a call
from headquarters.

They want you two guys to
go on television. Believe that?

Television? Us? Television?

Yeah. Yeah, right.
Tom... What's his name?

Jensen. Yeah. Yeah.

They want you to go on his show,

do a whole table-top
thing on fire prevention.

Wait a minute. All
right! How about that?

They got guys from fire
prevention to do that sort of thing.

What are they asking
us to do it for? I know.

Well, probably because I went down
and talked to them at headquarters.

You did what?

I went down and talked
to them at headquarters.

What's wrong with that?

Look, people think that
paramedics aren't firemen.

And I thought, well,
it would be nice to let them know

that we know a little bit
about fire prevention, too.

Well, you must've
talked a blue streak.

Somebody in the PR department
decided it'd be a heck of an idea

to have you two guys
go on the tube.

[CHUCKLES] Hmm. I'll be darned.

I didn't realize
I was so convincing.

That's pretty good, isn't it?

[SARCASTICALLY] That's
really great. That's really wonderful.

You got us on television.

Yeah. What's wrong with that?

What are you trying to do to me?

What am I trying to do to you?

I just went down and had a
simple little conversation with them.

[ALARM SOUNDING]

I didn't do anything wrong.

DISPATCHER:
Station 51, Truck 27.

A Ferris wheel stuck,
people trapped.

A man with an unknown illness
trapped in the top car.

Halo Amusement Center,
South Bay Boulevard.

Cross street Fountain Avenue.
Time out, 1426.

Station 51, KMG 365.

[TRUCK ENGINES STARTING]

[SIRENS WAILING]

[MAN GROANING]

WOMAN: Please get us down!

We're working on it, lady!

My husband's sick!
Don't you understand?

He needs help!

Hurry it up, can't you?

Darling, darling,
they'll get us down. They'll get us down.

Don't carry on, dear.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Bert? I'm weak.

Oh, I'm so weak.

How's he doing?

He's dying.

[SOBBING] Bert?

Ginnie, I just can't sit here.

I got to get down there to him.

You can fall.

[GASPING]

Somebody help!

Somebody help!

Well, she's going crazy.
She thinks he's going to die.

I got to help him.

WOMAN: Somebody help!

My husband's sick.

Somebody help!

Somebody help!

WOMAN: Please get us down!

Please get us down!

[SCREAMING]

[SIRENS WAILING]

DISPATCHER ON RADIO:


toxic chemicals are stored
in a tanker.

Use caution.

KELLY ON RADIO: Squad 51,
this is Rampart. Can you send me some EKG?

JOHNNY ON RADIO:


We're sending you a strip.
Vitals to follow.

Pulse is 160. The victim
is in extreme pain, Rampart.

[INTERCOM BEEPING]

This patient is in V-fib.

Rampart, we have lost the
victim's pulse. Beginning CPR.

[RAPID BEEPING]

We're defibrillating victim,
Rampart.

Rampart, we've defibrillated
victim. Decent sinus rhythm.

JOE ON RADIO: Administer 2 amps
sodium bicarb and insert an airway.

KELLY ON RADIO: Start an IV,


DIXIE: Squad 51, continue monitoring
Vitals and transport immediately.

JOHNNY ON RADIO:
We're on our way, Rampart.

[SIREN WAILING]

This is the closest
we can get here?

That's it.

LA Engine 51,
cancel Truck 27, no access.

Some kid stepped out
of his car and fell.

That's him up there.

[RADIO BEEPS]

DISPATCHER: Truck 27 canceled.

There's a sick man with his
wife in the blue-colored car.

Why don't you knock
off those repairs here?

We don't want to get this wheel
going with that kid up there.

JOHNNY: What have we got?

Okay,
there's a sick man in the blue car,

and the kid, evidently,
just fell out of his chair up there.

I can't get a truck in here, so you
guys are gonna have to hand-climb it.

All right.

Just hang on.

KEN: I think I'm
starting to slip.

JOHNNY: All right,
just hang on now. Don't start to panic.

Hey, don't panic,
will you? Just hang on.

[STAMMERING] I'm scared.

I know you are. So am I.

All right, now we're here.
So just take it easy, okay?

Okay. I got a hold of you.

I'll tell you what
we're gonna do.

We're gonna put a life
belt on you and tie you off.

Then you're gonna be all right.

Hey, Roy, think
I'll go on out here

and check these people
out here in this chair.

You got him?

Slow and easy.

[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]

Ma'am, you okay?

Ma'am, just look behind you.
I'm right here behind you.

No. Ma'am,

don't be scared.
We're here to help you.

Sir, you okay?

Sir?

[MOANING]

Johnny, what do you got?

[PANTING] I think I got a
man that's run stuporous.

Can you get over here?

JOHNNY: Yeah.

Okay, just try
to relax, all right?

Okay.

JOHNNY: Okay.

Yeah, let's see what we can do.

All right, I got it.

All right, here comes the line.

Heads up.

Where exactly is
that arm hurting you?

[GROANS] By my elbow.

We probably have to splint
you when we get down below.

So it's probably gonna hurt a
little when we're going down.

Great.

You take the excess here.

Yeah.

Okay.

What are you gonna do with that?

We're gonna hook
this to your belt.

Hook it up to you.

Can you hook it okay?

I'll put it in there.

Throw your left arm
around my shoulder now.

Okay. There we go.

All right?

[MAN GASPING]

Roy, can you grab a carotid
on him and I'll check her out?

[GRUNTS]

How you doing, ma'am?

He's got a carotid.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Respiration's a 12.

MARCO: I can't get it off.

STANLEY: Give Marco a
hand with that buckle right there.

Watch his head here.

JOHNNY: There we go. ROY: Okay.

All right, ma'am, take it easy.

Just take it easy.

You're gonna be fine.
You're gonna be fine.

You're gonna be all right.

All right, ma'am,
we're gonna try to...

Ma'am, you're gonna be okay.

Can you let go of the bar?

Ma'am? Wait a minute, she's...

She's got a hold of this bar here,
she ain't gonna let go.

Ma'am, we got your husband down,
and he's fine.

He's okay. Now we're
gonna have to get you down.

We're gonna put a belt
around your waist,

then we're gonna hook it up,

and all those men down
there are gonna pull you out.

Okay? Come on,
let go of the bar.

Ma'am? Ma'am, come on.

Ma'am, come on.

Ma'am, you can't be this way.
Come on now. Let go of the bar.

[GASPING]

Come on, come on.
You're all right.

Attagirl. You're okay.

[SOBBING]

You're okay.
You're gonna be fine.

Okay.

There you go.
You're gonna be okay.

So you just hang in there,
all right?

I'm gonna put this behind you

and then I'm gonna hook it
around your waist. All right.

Just lift your arm up
a little bit.

I'm gonna reach around here...

You're gonna be all right.

Okay, good girl. You're
gonna be fine. Take it easy.



[SOBBING] Please. How is he?

Rampart, this is County 51,
how do you read?

Ma'am, just relax, all right?

KELLY: 51, this is Rampart,
go ahead.

Here, Captain'
take care of you here,
all right?

[OVERLAPPING INDISTINCT CHATTER]

We have a male,
approximately 45 years old,

he's stuporous from being
trapped on the top of a Ferris wheel.

BP is 220 over 150.

Pulse is 110,
respirations are irregular.

Rampart, it looks like he's
in Cheyne-Stokes respiration.


a hypertensive crisis.

Start an IV with D5W, TKO, send me a
strip and transport as soon as possible.



Give me that lead and
I'm all set for you.

Are you? Yeah.

BP is still 220 over 150,
pulse is 110, Doctor.

Breathing is still irregular.

Pupils are reacting
sluggishly to the light.

Severe arterial spasm
of the retinal vessels.

Could be possible signs
of early papilledema.

I just spoke to his wife.

He has a history
of hypertension.

[sums]

I thought that was
probably the case.

They're celebrating their


Some celebration. Yeah.

Give him a bolus of 300
milligrams diazoxide IV.

Monitor his vitals closely.

I just want to be certain that
you're feeling all right, okay?

Oh, I am.

It was just being stuck all
the way up there like that.

I was absolutely petrified.

Yes, I can imagine how
rough it must've been for you.

All I want now is to
know how my husband is.

Well, I'm sure Dr. Brackett will have
something to tell you soon. Okay?

Look, you can wait in the
reception room if you'd like.

All right.

MIKE: So, you guys are gonna be on TV,
huh? Hi, guys.

Yeah. Yeah.

Hey,
Doc. How you doing? I'm okay.

We're gonna give a table-top
demonstration for the TV folks.

What's that?

That's where you have a
demonstration to show people

how they can prevent fires in businesses,
in their homes and everything else.

Well, how do you
demonstrate that?

Well, you get together a lot of
flammable liquids and a burner, spark g*n,

to show how fires
can get out of hand.

Want some coffee, Mike?
Yes, please, Joe.

Hey, that sounds
very interesting.

It is. It really is.
'Course he didn't think so.

He's not real enthusiastic
about the whole thing.

No, I'm not enthusiastic
about the whole thing.

You're the one who roped
me into the whole thing.

Well, what's wrong with that?

Sounds like a little
stage fright, Roy.

[GRUNTS] Yeah.

Hey, look, don't worry about it.

Just be yourselves.
That's what I do.

[STAMMERING] You've
done a lot of these?

Yeah, about a half-dozen.

And you know what I do? I just pretend
there isn't any camera there at all.

You just pretend there's
no camera there at all?

That's right.

Actually, you're going to really
enjoy yourselves. Honestly.

The first place, you don't have to
carry the show all by yourselves.

That's not true. Because there'

probably be some other fireman there,

there might be a panel discussion
before the demonstration.

That's not true. We are
the show. We are the show.

He's a moaner and a groaner.
That's all he is. See you guys later.

Yeah. We'll see
you on television.

Quit complaining about it.

What are you complaining about?

Everything is going to be fine.

WOMAN ON PA: Dr. Allan,
an emergency. Dr. Allan, an emergency.

Doctor,
are you looking for me? I'm Mrs. Phillips.

Yes, I am. I'm Dr. Brackett.

Your husband seems to be
going through a hypertensive crisis.

Well, the doctor told him his blood pressure
was much too high several months ago.

He gave him some pills
and he was much better.

He's been doing so well
since then.

Are you going to
be able to help him?

Yes, I'm pretty sure we will.
Why don't you sit down?

Please.

All right, just relax, huh?
Everything's going to be fine.

And you're going to have
quite a story to tell

about your 25th
wedding anniversary.

[CHUCKLES]

I guess we will be able
to laugh about it.

Well, I'm gonna put your husband
in intensive care for a few days,

and we'll treat his
hypertension aggressively.

Will I be able to see him?

In a few minutes.
I'll let you know, okay?

Oh, thank you.

Okay, just take it easy.

Thank you.

Can you tell me
how Ken Jordan is?

[LAUGHING]

Oh, my arm.

I think you're crazy,
but you ought to get a medal or something.

For falling?

No, for risking your life
trying to save someone.

Mmm, thank you.

How did you get down?

Oh, they fixed the Ferris wheel.

You should see how
perfect it's running now.

You want to go up again?

[BOTH LAUGHING]

JOHNNY: All right, this is
how we start off the show.

We start it off by lighting the flame,
just like the Olympics.

[CHUCKLING]

Okay. Let's not put those there.

All right. Chet,
why don't you get over there

and, Marco,
why don't you get there?

Well,
why can't we just stay right here?

Well, because.

They have cameras,
right? They usually have two cameras.

And we'd like for you
guys to be the cameras,

then we can play to you, okay?

But, John,
why can't we just stay right here?

Because, Marco,
we want to rehearse.

Look, do you want
to help us or not?

Do you want us to look
like fools on television?

Look, do you want us to
make all firemen look like fools?

Okay, where do you want us?

Okay, Chet, you be right there,

Marco, you be right there.

Okay, now you both
are cameras, okay?

Right. Right.

[CHUCKLES] All right,
this is gonna be good.

No, no, no. Not that close.
Marco, dolly to your left.

"Dolly"?

Yeah, dolly. That's
show business terms.

When a camera makes a
move they call it a "dolly."

And you dolly
to your right, okay?

Little bit more over.

Now, when a camera is on,
a red light usually goes on, right?

So, since we don't
have red lights,

hold up your hand like that
to let us know which one is on.

Good, Marco,
but we want to start off with Chet, okay?

Chet, hold up your hand.
Hold up your hand. Okay. Good.

Now,
that means you're the camera that's on.

He's the camera that's on,
so we play to him, okay?

All right.

Ladies and gentlemen,
most materials are flammable.

The more finely divided
the materials are

the more of a hazard
they become.

Yeah. For instance,
I take this piece of wood here

and I hold it over the fire,
like this, it's not going to ignite.

Now, the reason is not...

[CLEARS THROAT] Roy.

[WHISPERING] This
camera's on. This camera.

I'm trying to make
an important point here.

Yeah, I know. I know.
I can appreciate that.

Yeah. But, see, if this camera's
on and you're playing to that camera

then you look like a fool.

[sum-nus]

Okay.

What I'm trying to say is, if the
flame now is too low, the alcohol flame,

if we increase the flame,
if we bring it...

Why don't you tell them that it takes
between 350 degrees and 500 degrees

before it'll give off vapors.

And actually, in reality,
most fires are vapor fires.

Most fires are vapor fires.

For instance, I take this piece of
wood here and I hold it over the flame.

Okay. This thin, little piece of
wood ignites in just a few seconds.

Very good. Okay.

Then you take the sawdust,

place it in here,
place it over the same flame

and the results
are instantaneous.

What's the matter
with this thing?

[CHUCKLES] Oh. See?

Now, the same thing, we can carry just a
step further here with the wood dust, okay?

Take the wood dust and we
hold it near the flame and...

Johnny takes the...

And takes this
and we provide a little air

to blow it over the top of the
flame. The results are dramatic.

ROY: See? You're getting...
You're getting near expl*si*n there...

[CLEARS THROAT] Right.

What are you stopping for?

I forgot what comes next.

JOHNNY: Most holds true... It
holds true with most materials...

It holds true with most... It
holds true with most materials.

For instance, if you take
a vacuum cleaner bag

and you throw it
into a fireplace...

[IMITATES expl*si*n]
You get an expl*si*n.

Just like you saw right there.

[CLEARS THROAT] Right. And if
you take that same vacuum cleaner bag

wrap it in some newspaper.

Wrap it in some newspaper
and throw it in the trash bin,

you've prevented a fire.

The windup. The windup.

So, to wind this up...

We usually tell the guys
that work at the sawdust mills

or at the mattress factory

that they have the same kind of
wood dust around them all the time

and if they're not careful,
the same kind of thing can happen.

Right. And also,
if you're sweeping up all the debris

and you put it in a trash bin,

you're removing fuel
and preventing a fire.

You're not on yet.
You're not on.

And preventing a fire...

You're not on yet.

I just want to ask a question.

What? Are you finished?

Well... Almost. Yeah, almost.

That wasn't bad.

Wasn't bad?

Well, we're not really through. We
still have the aerosol demonstration.

Did you guys read
these Ram statistics?

Well, I doubt if we
can make it early.

No, on weekends, Frank is out in the
yard with the tomatoes and geraniums

from morning till all hours.

Well, yeah.

No, but he's at the office
all week.

On weekends, he relaxes
by gardening.

Just a second, Lynne.

Corey?

Corey, lunch time, dear.

I'll have to go get him.
Talk to you later, Lynne.

Corey. Didn't you hear me calling,
honey? It's lunchtime.

Corey?

What's the matter?

Oh. My God!

JOHNNY: Hey, Cap. Do you want
to see what we got worked out here?

Sure would. Yeah.

Okay. You missed the first half,
but you can get in on the second half.

Okay? All right.

Okay. Why don't you just
stand over here then?

Oh, this is fine.

Yeah, that's good. That's a
better place to see it, too, anyway.

Well... Okay.

Here's a can of hairspray. Now, as you
know, aerosol cans are very popular today.

If I take the can
of hairspray...

What are you doing?

I was going to spray into the...

Yeah, I know you were. But
you're missing a whole step.

See, if you go right into
the demonstration then,

you know, you miss the effect.

Oh, I didn't build.

Yeah, right. Just do it
as we rehearsed it, okay?

All right. Cap...

Fellows. Ladies and gentlemen, as you know,
aerosol cans are very popular today.

But a lot of people
fail to read the labels.

Caution. Flammable.

Right. They decorate the cans very pretty,
to match your home decor.

But they don't realize that
this stuff is very dangerous.

And, if you're next
to an electric heater,

or you're smoking,
and you happen to use a can of hairspray...

Like that,
you're wearing your hair a little shorter.

[CHUCKLING]

And take this bug b*mb,
for instance.

Yeah. This is gonna get them.

Yeah,
really. Okay. You find ants in your house.

You spray the sink. You spray the
cabinet. You spray across the floor.

Towards the hot water heater
or the stove.

Any spark, even a pilot light...

And you have instant flame.

So, you may get rid of your ants

and you may also
get rid of your kitchen.

Well, looks to me like you
got your act together pretty well.

Yeah.

Didn't those jokes work?

Jokes?

[ALARM SOUNDING]

DISPATCHER ON PA:
Engine 36, Squad 51.

A sick child.


933 North Plainview.

Cross street Longwood.
Time out, 1213.

STANLEY: Squad 51, KMG 365.

[SIREN WAILING]

It's my little boy.
Something's wrong with him.

Okay. Did he fall or anything?

No.

Has he ever been sick?

No. Corey is
a very healthy child.

Okay. Ma'am,

could you just step back just a
little bit and give us some room?

All right.

What's his name?

It's Corey. Corey?

Can you hear me, son?

Corey?

Corey...

Okay. Roy...
His neck muscles are stiff.

How old is he?

Five.

What's all this
on his pants, ma'am?

I don't know.
He was playing outside.

Is he gonna be all right?

Yes, ma'am. I hope so.

Okay. Roy... ROY: Yeah.

His arms and legs are twitching.

Okay. Got him on
seven liters, there.

JOHNNY: Okay.

Rampart, this is County 51.

Go ahead, 51.

Rampart, we have a male patient. Age,
five years.

Patient is unconscious.

According to the mother,
there is no apparent accident.

The neck muscles are stiff.

ROY: There are muscle twitches
in the arms and the legs.

Pupils are reactive,
but constrictive.

The vital signs are,
pulse is 50, respiration's 25.

Patient has excessive salivation
and is markedly diaphoretic.

Stand by for BP.

ROY: BP is 90 over 60.

We have inserted an oral airway

and we have him
on six liters of 02.


bronchospasm or cyanosis?

ROY: Negative on the cyanosis.

It's affirmative on
bronchospasm.



and transport
as soon as possible.



You got that? Got it.

No marks or bruises.
No outward signs of injury.

I wonder what all this
dust is, Joe.

I don't know.

Nurse, would you get me a syringe,
a nasal gastric tube

and a bowl with saline?
Thank you.

He reacts to pain.

First of all, I think we'd better
aspirate everything out of his stomach.

And let's get
this dust analyzed.

Is his mother here?
Right outside.

I want to talk to his mother,
Joe. Go ahead with the lavage.

Okay.

JOHNNY: Doc,
this is Mrs. Bartell.

Hello, I'm Dr. Brackett. How
long ago was Corey taken ill?

About a half hour. I called
the paramedics immediately.

Did you notice anything
unusual before then?

No, nothing.

You said he was playing
in the backyard.

Yes.

Is there anything in the backyard
he could have gotten into?

Grass. Flowers.

Vegetables. My husband
grows things.

ROY: You keep any weed
K*llers or insecticides around?

MRS. BARTELL: I suppose so.

And where would
those things be kept?

In the garage.
Is the garage locked?

No.

Kel, there's nothing obvious
in the gastric lavage.

I'm gonna have the lab
check it along with the dust.

Yeah, well, now it looks like he
might have gotten into some poison.

It could be organic phosphate
poisoning. We'll start treating him.

But I've got to know
exactly what that stuff was.

Yeah. We'll go back
and check it all out.

Ma'am, would you like
to come with us?

You could just wait in the
reception for him, okay?

Check his blood sugar and
urine. Electrolytes and BUN.

Also get him started on one
milligram of atropine IV push stat.

Oh, excuse me.

They gave me your message
at the office.

Oh, Frank.

The doctors think Corey got
into some poison in the garage.

Poison?

I just have things
for my gardening in there.

Oh, who ever thought Corey
would get into that stuff?

Oh...

Roy. Yeah, this is it.

Boy, look at this stuff.

Look at here.

This stuff isn't even covered.

Yeah, and everything's
half full.

There's no telling what...
What he got into.

Yeah, I know. These lids...
All these lids are off.

Why don't we just put
everything in this bag?

All right.

And we're doing repeated blood
analysis for cholinesterase activity.

That'
help in establishing
a diagnosis.

You're sure he swallowed
something from the garage?

No, he didn't necessarily
have to swallow anything.

What we're trying to do now
is isolate the substance.

Everything that Johnny and Roy
brought from your house is being analyzed.

I'll keep you posted.

We'd better get going, too.
Okay.

Well, good luck.

Thanks for everything
you've done. It's okay.

We'll check back on Corey
a little later, all right?

Thanks.

[INAUDIBLE]

Kel, Corey had a seizure.

Get a respirator in here.

Dix, give him 5 milligrams IV
diazepam and two milligrams atropine.

I don't know, Kel, I didn't think we
were going to make it for a while.

Main thing is,
we've got it under control.

Yeah. Do you want some coffee?

Yeah.

You know, what I can't figure out is
what they were doing with parathion.

Yeah. Me neither.

I'll find out
when I talk to his father.

Thank you, Bridget.

Is Corey gonna be all right?

Well, he's stable. He
seems to be holding his own.

What made him so sick?

Parathion.

Parathion?

What's that?

It's an insecticide.
It's very potent.

It's only sold for
commercial use.

How did you get it, Mr. Bartell?

[STAMMERS] Uh, well,
my brother's a foreman on a corporate farm

in Central California.

We visited him a couple of years
ago and I brought some back.

I thought it'd be helpful.

I grow a lot of things
in that yard of mine.

How did Corey
get his hands on it?

It was just on a shelf
in the garage.

Like I said, it's very potent.

Just like disinfectant
or rat poison.

It just never occurred to us
that he'd get at it.

Well, with small children,

every garage, every garden shed,
every cabinet under the sink

is a potential life hazard.

Children are curious. They'll explore,
they'll taste.

And sometimes they die.

Well, from now on,
anything in the house or yard that

is a danger to our boy
will be put out of his reach.

The parathion won't be returned
to you. It will be destroyed.

If everything goes as expected,
Corey should have a complete recovery.

Thank you so much, Doctor,
for everything you've done.

Thank you, Doctor.
It's all right.

Uh,
you can go up and see him in a few minutes.

There you are.
It's just called in.

You're clear for the next
hour and a half.

All right. Good deal. Good deal.

How do we look?

Neckties, yet.
You look terrific.

Hope you guys do as well on the
air as you did in the dress rehearsal.

We'll wow them.

We're letter-perfect.

That's heavy.

I thought you said you took
some of this stuff out of here.

You know,
I could only take a few things out.

Well, how come
you don't carry it?

How come I get stuck with it?

I was a little upset before because I
figured he had cornered me into something.

But I'm kind of excited
about it now.

Well, good luck.

Thanks.

Break a leg.

You know, Cap,
I don't think they'll ever make it.

MAN: Two minutes to air,
everyone.

Sally, move the carts down
to camera one

and put the product logo
on the code.

I'm real proud to have
you men on my show.

Oh, thanks a lot. Thank you.

We're just two guys who
do a job. Nobody special.

"Just two guys who
do a job," he says.

I admire that, Roy.

No, he's... I'm John.

Uh-uh. He's... I'm Roy.

Of course, John DeSoto.

No. John Gage.

He's John Gage
and I'm Roy DeSoto.

Twist them around any way you
like. It still comes out H-E-R-O to me.

JOHNNY: Oh.

Uh, we have one minute.

We have one minute?

JENSEN: 50 seconds.

Uh, Mr. Jensen. Don't you...

Tom. Tom.

Tom. Thank you. Don't you think
that you should ask us some questions

and we should answer
what you're gonna say to us?

You know, kind of
get that straight?

I run an unrehearsed show.

That's why I like having
men like you on it.

In your line of work,
you're accustomed to spontaneity.

ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen,
The Tom Jensen Show.

We have with us today
two paramedics from

the Los Angeles County
Fire Department.

Roy Gage and John DeSoto.

Now, the first thing
I want to ask you is,

what goes through your minds
when you're rescuing someone

from a burning apartment?

Describe for our audience the
exhilaration and gratification you feel.

Me? Yes.

[STUTTERS] Well... Certainly...

When we do things like this,
we...

We feel very, you know...

[STAMMERS]
Exhilarated, to say...

[STAMMERS] And we get...
We get...

A lot of gratification
from that exhilaration.

You know, as a matter of fact...

JENSEN: You heard them,
ladies and gentlemen.

Not a word of self-praise.

Brave, rugged and modest
to the core.

Stay with us. In one minute, my two
exciting guests are going to demonstrate

some fascinating
fire-prevention techniques.

What you're about to witness
is a table-top demonstration.

And what you learn now
may save your life later.

Men, the show is yours.

[sum-nus]

Men. The show is yours.

Oh. Okay.

Right. Well...

Ladies and gentlemen... Yeah.

Uh...

Sometimes a fire
can be your friend.

Look at those turkeys.

CHET: I mean, yeah.
They volunteered for this?

MARCO: Gage volunteered.
DeSoto got drafted.

That's true.

Oh, they are positively
embarrassing.

You're right, Cap. I mean, they could
give the whole fire department a bad name.

A demonstration, right?

We're gonna do
a table-top demonstration.

Right. Right.

[STAMMERS] Okay. We're gonna...

We have some paint thinner here.

Yeah.

And what we're gonna do...
Do you want to do this?

Uh, you do that.

And I'll... Okay.

We're gonna pour some paint
thinner in this little bowl here

and then, he's going to
light the...

We've got a breeze
coming in here.

And then, what we'll do is...
We'll wait and see...

This... We've got
a little breeze here.

It's kind of hard
to light this...

We've got a breeze.
We're gonna...

Then, what we'll do ls,
we'll light this little burner here.

And then, we'll wait for...

Where is he going?

Breeze.

Then, we'll wait
for the flash...

Where are you going?

We're gonna”. There's a
breeze coming through.

We're gonna light this and then
we'll wait and let the paint thinner

come to a flashpoint.

I can't watch this.
I can't watch it.

I'm sorry.

Sorry.

Sometimes, they don't go right.

There's a breeze coming in.

It would have been better with
big wooden matches, I think.

There's a breeze coming through.

Do you have any wood matches?

Hey, Chet.
What kind of dip is this?

This is butterscotch bean dip.

Butterscotch bean dip?

Look at Gage. You got it?

Okay. Now, what
we're doing here is...

Do you want to do this?

[STAMMERS] No,
you're doing... You're doing well.

You do it.

We're waiting now
for a flashpoint.

[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]

MAN: Call the fire department.

Take care of it, will you?
Give me a microphone.

Swing those cameras around.

Look out! Get out of the way!

Ladies and gentlemen,
there's been an accident in our studio.

What you're witnessing is
real life drama unrehearsed.

Like everything is
on The Tom Jensen Show.

JENSEN: Was that a live wire?

Yeah.

And you put it out
with a stick of wood?

Yeah, that's right.
The burns on the chest...

Folks, how many of you

would have had the
presence of mind to do that?

What you're witnessing
is remarkable.

ROY: Get out of the way
here, please?

Get the reel line in.

LA Engine 51, at scene.

Cancel other units. Squad


Engine 51 out 15 minutes.

DISPATCHER ON RADIO: Engine 51.

All units responding
with Engine 51, cancel.

You've just done a stupendous
thing. You've brought a man back to life.

What are your feelings now?

Share this enormous sensation
with us.

Sir, please.
I don't have the time.

What are you doing now?
Describe the procedure for us.

Not now.

What you are witnessing,
ladies and gentlemen,

is an incredible life and
death struggle being waged

by two men for whom
personal glory has no meaning.

This is consistent with the
policy of The Tom Jensen Show

to bring you these men in
the performance of their duty.

We'll be back
after this commercial.

ROY: Boy, did we blow it.

JOHNNY: We fell like a sack
of wet potatoes.

We sank without a trace.

[PHONE RINGING] I'd
rather face a high-rise fire

than a television camera,
any day.

Headquarters just called.

They want to see
you two guys tomorrow.

Yeah. Yeah.

You know what they said?
They said you two did more

for the image of firefighting
in half an hour

than conventional public
relations could do in a year.

What did they say?

That's what they said.

You won't believe this. That was
The Tom Jensen Show, the producer.

I told him you guys were busy.
It sounds better.

They were flooded with telegrams
and they want you back on the show.

They do? Yeah.

Well, what do you think?

Who me? Oh,
no. I'm quitting while I'm ahead.

Yeah. You guys know what
the first rule of showbiz is?

Leave them wanting more.