Close Calls: On Camera

A supermarket manager and his girlfriend risk their own lives to save a pensioner from a burning car, plus a teenage adventurer has a near miss with an iceberg, and a family in Wales enjoying a day at the beach find a curious item on the shore, not realising it's a bomb.

A teacher out for a New Year's Day walk with her dog risks her own life to save her pet and becomes entombed in a treacherous mudslide. A coastguard team battles to save her, but they become trapped too.

Mountain biker Shyamender suffers a freak accident in the Peak District and lies bleeding to death. A total stranger comes to his aid along with a mountain rescue team and the air ambulance. Plus, an emergency call handler answers the phone to a three-year-old whose pregnant mum has fallen downst...

A paraglider misjudges the thermals and plunges 6,000 feet, landing 60 feet up in the tree canopy. Two young boys are trapped on the top floor of their home as fire rages below, and a snowboarder filming on the slopes doesn't see a skier approaching.

A British pensioner on the trip of a lifetime is lost in the Australian bush without food and water. A rescue team finds a message etched in the sand of the river bank. Plus, a mum on the school run is crushed by her own car and a champion British kite surfer suffers a traumatic injury when a stu...

A family on a safari holiday is attacked by an elephant as they sit down to eat, a climber plummets from near the top of Helvellyn in the Lake District, and a singer and her band, performing at a five-star hotel, flee as a blaze engulfs the 63-storey building.

A dad strolling along the street where he lives, on his way to watch football on TV at his brother's house, is involved in a horrific accident when a bus shunts a parked car into him trapping him beneath. Plus, a professional surfer collides with a jet ski as he rides a huge wave. His friends wat...

A building site worker digs up more than he bargained for - a WWII bomb. It's up to the bomb squad to make it safe while 3,000 Londoners are moved out of their homes. Plus, a local postmaster takes evasive action as a car somersaults towards him on a country road, and a nurse calls for help after...

Fire crews battle to reach a woman trapped in her third-floor flat, risking their lives to pluck her to safety, as thick smoke and flames envelop them all. Professional snowboarders accidentally trigger an avalanche. One gets swept away by the wall of snow as the others watch helplessly on and th...

A team of British rowers take on the challenge of the Pacific Ocean but their journey nearly ends in tragedy as their small boat begins to sink. A rescue helicopter can't take them all, one must stay behind. A young family's horror as four-year-old Jess runs into the path of a car. An on-looker c...