Life and death decisions on the front line.🚨 #ambulance From control rooms to the crews on the street, meet the people making sure every second counts in this series based in North Yorkshire | BBC

Poor older lady didn't let anyone into her home for 26 years — I finally learned why when an ambulance took her away. I'm 38F, married with two kids, living in a quiet Midwestern town. After almost a decade here, I thought I knew my neighbors. Turns out, you never really do. When we moved in, everyone was welcoming — except the woman in the weather-beaten Victorian at the end. Mrs. Halloway. No one knew her first name. She never waved, never smiled. Just shuffled to the mailbox in threadbare sli