Visible crew/equipment: At the greenhouse nursery, when Larry is leaning over his uncle, who's lying on the ground, the outline of the mic transmitter is visible on the back of the teenager's sweatshirt.
Continuity mistake: When the ambulance carrying the 15 year old OD backs up to ER receiving, both attendants get out of the driver and passenger sides, but in the previous and following shot we see that one of the attendants has been sitting with Johnny and the patient, at the back of the ambulance.
Continuity mistake: When the 15 year old OD is wheeled into the treatment room and transferred onto the gurney, Roy leans over and starts removing the squad's resuscitator from the airway's mask, but then it cuts to a closeup of Morton's hands removing it.
Visible crew/equipment: When the 15 year old OD is in the ER, after Morton removes the squad's resuscitator from the mask and replaces it with an Ambu bag, the cameraman moves forward and leans in, causing a distinct shadow on Johnny and the patient.
Visible crew/equipment: When Squad 51 is dispatched to a drowning, just as Chet tells Johnny, "Don't go getting yourself damaged," the set lighting is reflected in the squad's spotlights.
Dinner Date - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: At very end in the locker room, when Chet asks Roy why Johnny is mad, Johnny's setting up his uniform shirt and the green pen is in the pocket, then it vanishes and reappears.
Continuity mistake: When Dr. Early is with the farmer with the unknown illness and talking to Dixie, there's a tall dark item sticking up on the left side of the farmer's buttoned shirt pocket, and then when Dr. Knott stops to ask him questions the item is sticking up on the right side of the buttoned pocket. It could not have simply shifted sides in the pocket, because the pocket flap is buttoned at the center.
Visible crew/equipment: When Johnny walks out of the ER, and finds out from Sally that Roy's been spreading advanced publicity about Johnny's 'modeling career', and then when Dr. Knott joins them, the outline of the mic transmitter is visible on the back of Roy's shirt.
Visible crew/equipment: While en route to the boy who fell in the hole, Mike is driving Engine 51, and seated backwards in the jumpseat behind Mike is Marco, who's wearing a helmet and his turnout, but in the shot from the POV behind Mike, we see the reflection in the rear-view mirror of the grey haired crew member, who is seated facing forward behind Mike.
Visible crew/equipment: When Squad 51 responds to 'man injured', when they arrive at the house, Johnny asks Roy if there's a dog on the roof, and it cuts to a shot of Sheba, the dog, just as she glances toward the tree, and behind the tree we can see the moving legs of a crew member, likely Sheba's trainer.
Revealing mistake: When Johnny and Roy are in the storm drain searching for the two missing boys, all the walls have very distinctive water stains and markings, and the same walls and drains keep repeating, no matter the distance they have walked.
Continuity mistake: When the tones drop for the structure fire at the hotel, the dispatched companies are: Engine 4, Engine 51, Engine 37, Engine 105, Truck 8, and Battalion 14. However, at the fire we see Engine 16, Engine 27, Engine 10, Truck 98, and Battalion 14 instructs Engine 23 and Engine 19 over the HT.
Continuity mistake: When Roy and John are with Boat 110, after the Harbor Patrol cancels their incident response, we hear that Engine 110 and Engine 58 are dispatched to 'aircraft down' and Boat 110 heads there as well, but when Boat 110 reaches the shore, we see an engine and a squad behind the airplane, just before more of 110's guys appear.
Continuity mistake: After Johnny and Roy rappel down into the canyon to rescue the unconscious hiker, when Johnny reaches the hiker, suddenly there's a grey 12" reflective strip attached to the back of his life belt, where there was none before. Then it vanishes when he gets the stokes basket, but it reappears when they attach the stokes to Truck 43's snorkel.
Visible crew/equipment: After the guys get back to the station following the structure fire, when Roy and John discuss Roy's decision about possibly going to 98's, the lighting equipment is reflected in the driver's side spotlight.
Visible crew/equipment: After the structure fire, when Engine 51 and Squad 51 back up into the apparatus bay, the top of the set at the rear bay door can be seen.
Revealing mistake: During the structure fire in the middle of the night, when Roy rescues the little boy and the dog from the burning house, it's too obvious they are a doll and stuffed animal.
Continuity mistake: After Johnny moves the squad forward in the apparatus bay, he heads to the kitchen to get Roy, and in the next shot there's a rolling mop bucket with two mops that suddenly appear in front of the kitchen doorway.
Continuity mistake: When the guys are in the garage with the mechanic who had an engine fall on him, when Johnny contacts Rampart, Dixie presses the fifth button on the tape recorder, to record the transmission. Once they lift the engine off the mechanic, when Johnny contacts Rampart again, Brackett presses both the third and fifth buttons to record the transmission.
Continuity mistake: At the park, when the attendants load the mugger into the ambulance, and also when the ambulance backs up to Rampart's ER receiving, just as Squad 51 turns and starts backing up, the type of ambulance that parked is a station wagon, but in the next shot while Squad 51 is still backing up, that ambulance has suddenly become the truck type.
Answer: It is standard practice to wet down driveways so that they stand out in a long shot.
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