Dixie's predecessor, old friend and a former Rampart head nurse, tries to commit suicide by OD'g on antidepressants and catches her house on fire. In the hospital, she befriends a paraplegic child, who almost drowned in a swimming pool. The paramedics help a woman who fainted after wrapping her body in plastic to treat her cellulite, a family suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning from a new furnace installation, and a man pinned under a truck loaded with leaking liquid hydrogen.