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Just in time for one of Jamie's most challenging recoveries this season, a familiar face shows up at the yard and is recruited to help save a loaded car carrier; Al and Gord travel north to an epic job near a gold mining town.

Jamie attempts to lure back former lead operator Colin McLean by ordering his dream truck; Team Reliable tackles a smashed semi with a super-sized load of French fries; A blown tire launches a dump truck into the ditch and two teams into action.

AJ is excited to do his first tow-up on the Coquihalla but he's forced to make it work with only a medium-duty wrecker, Jamie feels the loss of his heavies this season as he does a snowy recovery on the summit; Team MSA takes on a tippy dump truck on Fraser Valley farm.

With all surrounding highways closed after unprecedented flooding, drivers and residents are trapped in Hope as a raging creek threatens Jamie's shop and family home; Dylan tries.

Merv leads Team Aggressive to get a lumber b-train out of the ditch; Reliable Towing races to recover a semi down a deep bank off the highway, Don and Mike from Peninsula Towing play a vital role in getting a house to a waiting barge before the tide goes out.

Team Aggressive navigates their way through the snowy chaos to join Reliable Towing's Dylan on a recovery; Jamie uses his LA Rotator to help truckers stuck in the snow; Highways Maintenance and Al have their hands full guiding drivers up the highway; AJ braves the snowy backcountry by himself to rescue a stuck service truck.

At the foot of the Rockies, a jacknifed semi put the pressure on AJ as he runs a heavy for the first time; Jamie brings his LA Rotator out to help a local tow company recover a loaded tractor-trailer, Ty and Andy take on a waterlogged excavator sinking into a wildlife habitat.

Reliable's team are challenged by a sideways semi that could lose its load of groceries at any moment; a snowstorm keeps Al busy while BC Highway Patrol arms motorists to brave the Coquihalla; AJ does a solo job for Jamie, battling through deep snow on a back road.

A 40-ton boulder crashes onto B.C.'s Fraser Canyon Highway and launches Al Quiring into the crush zone; Jamie, Brandon, and Paris climb a deactivated logging road to retrieve a lost wreck.

One of the worst winter storms in years forces officials to shut down The Coq; working through blinding snow, freezing rain and even an avalanche threat, heavy rescue crews help truckers and drivers out of the closure zone.

Al and Gord are called in to winch a 65-ton steel bridge across the Coquihalla River; Jamie takes a bad fall while operating'Mighty Mo; a new recruit is put to the test on an epic backroad recovery.

Jamie joins forces with brother Jason and Aggressive Towing to pull off a triple rotator job on the Canyon Highway, Team Reliable's Ty and Andy contend with trees and tight space to pull out an RV, Jamie gets emotional when one of his favourite trucks goes down in flames.

Jamie lives out his worst nightmare when he's part of a massive crash that takes out his LA Rotator; Al helps a relative haul a superload up the hill; AJ and James Junior must rely on their know-how to pull a brand-new pickup out of the mud.

Al and Jamie have a rare reunion while both working the summit of the Coquihalla highway, Reliable Towing's John and Andy must close a vital brake check while recovering a rolled-over semi, Team Aggressive uses an unconventional solution to get a stolen piece of equipment out of the ditch.

As British Columbia's heavy rescue heroes gear up for another winter, Jamie, Al, Jason, and Ken team up to look back at each other's recoveries and take a look ahead at the new season.

A crash on the Canyon Highway requires the technical skills of Hope Search and Rescue to rescue the driver; Dylan mentors Reliable operator Stephanie on her first heavy job; a new team in the north take on a huge job with the help of a crane truck; Jamie puts his son Junior on the controls of his prized rotator for the first time.

As the holiday season approaches, Reliable Towing is faced with their biggest wreck of the season. Jamie enlists Rob's log truck driving experience to pilot a torn-up trailer safely down Highway 1. Merv uses the full might of his rotator to right a flipped crane truck.

MSA and Reliable team up for a wreck on the Canyon Highway's notorious Killer's Corner; Jamie uses a rollover as an opportunity to teach crew new skills; Team Quiring meet the challenge of a swamped-in dump truck with a bulldozer; the anniversary of last year's catastrophic floods is cause for reflection.

Cary Quiring is tasked with keeping crucial goods flowing; a wreck that brings three heavies out tests Jamie's new LA Rotator; Aggressive Towing tackles a sideways transport.

Jamie faces his toughest wreck in years, so he calls in a familiar face and a 50-ton rotator; Al attempts to free a 70-ton excavator from a mud hole.

Merv's called up The Coq to help Reliable Towing untangle three major wrecks less than a kilometre apart; Dylan races to recover a car dangling on a bridge; Colin rolls up on a heavy rescue head scratcher.

A winter storm bears down on the Coquihalla as Team Reliable takes on a twisted trailer; Abbotsford Police and CVSE run a joint operation to clamp down on trucker safety violations; Jamie rescues a pickup that has gone off the highway and into a busy railway.

Jamie clears a snowed-in semi at the foot of the Rockies before an avalanche control operation ends; Al fills a crucial role in a billion dollar infrastructure project; Reliable's Ty and Andy wrestle a wreck to keep rush hour moving; Dylan uses the military rotator on an icy backroad recovery.

A missing truck driver trapped inside a wreck for two days draws Jamie Davis Heavy Rescue and first responders into one of the most difficult and emotional recoveries in years.

Jamie and Brandon respond to a semi sucked into a muddy ditch; a familiar face eyes a legendary tow company; Reliable's 50-ton wrecker takes on a tricky recovery; an upside-down camper and star-studded vintage pickup test a newly-formed team.

Al comes to the rescue of an overconfident driver, team Reliable gains a fiery personality, and Gary faces a heavyweight challenge.

Jamie and his fleet of heavy wreckers are paralyzed in his own yard by a massive snowfall; a tow-up in deep powder turns into big trouble for Colin; Al and Gord rescue a teetering semi during the morning rush on Hwy 1.

Jamie realizes he's been given the wrong information; Team Reliable wrestles with a cable barrier on Highway 1; Aggressive Towing battles with a heavy B-train down a deep ditch in the Fraser Valley.

Heavy snowfall has created avalanche conditions on the Coq. Plow crews are barely able to keep up. When traffic starts backing up in high-risk avalanche zones, highway authorities decide to close the road in both directions. A team of avalanche techs flies up the mountain in helicopters to drop concussion bombs and release the build-up, but bad weather hampers their first attempt. With the Coq closed overnight, trucks are using the back roads to get through.

A crash in the Fraser Canyon has Colin and crew working below an unstable rock slope; Jamie charts a new course for his business, setting out on a 20,000-kilometre journey; a heavy rescue legend helps Dylan on an ice recovery.

Jamie's rookie driver is dispatched to rescue a convoy of oversized loads on The Coq; Scott battles to keep a lumber truck from tipping; Mission Towing tries to fish a 40-thousand pound relic out of a river.

A tractor trailer clinging to the edge of a mountain has Mitch, Merv and James pulling together to save the load; after years of relying on older equipment, Jamie Davis brings home a surprise for the team.

Jamie's on high alert as he's the first responder to a pileup while on his way to another crash; Team Quiring works with BC Highway Patrol to clear a multi-vehicle crash on Highway 1; a shocking crash into a residential home.

Black smoke billowing above the Fraser Valley sends fire crews and Ken Duperon racing to the Mission Towing yard; a cracked trailer in deep snow becomes a delicate recovery for Rick and Brandon.

Gord Boyd races to clear a jackknifed semi as snow plows battle to keep The Coq moving; a loaded 18-wheeler on the edge of a cliff tests Reliable Towing's Cam and Chace; a lost trucker needs help backing down a dark road.

Jamie isn't the only tow guy on the Coq. Lone wolf Al Quiring is a tough as nails wrecker and Jamie's main rival. Their dads did battle a generation ago, now Jamie and Al are fighting it out for the title - 'King of the Coq'.

High winds in BC's Fraser Valley flip a trailer on a bridge and blow away Ken and the Mission crew; Reliable Towing's James Luke and Mitch Karr battle 70-kph wind gusts to recover a wreck loaded with lumber.

Jamie and the next generation take on an airbag wreck similar to a challenging one from the past; Dylan must rely on roadside ingenuity.

Merv helps Abbotsford Police deal with a wreck on the vital Highway 11 route to the US border; Team Reliable battles a twisted lumber b-train shutting down Highway 7; MSA's Kirpal works with his son Gurk to rescue a semi on the verge of tipping into a ditch; Jamie is impressed by AJ's skills when they rescue a trailer from a landslide.

A crash brings Greg and Brian out for action; Team Aggressive wrangles a teetering truck; MSA takes on a major recovery affecting the busiest stretch of highway in B.C.

Al Quiring attempts to pull up a logging truck that plunged 700 feet off a cliff; Jamie and Scott team up on a heavy roll over in Fraser Canyon.

In Hope, Jamie, Colin and Cam battle heavy rains to recover a rolled semi blocking the highway through town; with traffic to The Coq cut off and a trailer full of cooking oil starting to rip, Jamies crew must get the road open.

Al Quiring is pulled into a muddy war to rescue a pair of 40 tin excavators buried in a bog; Jamie and Scott are called to a mysterious wreck in The Canyon.

Jamie is on high alert with a wildfire threatening his own backyard in Hope; Team Aggressive must navigate tinder dry conditions on a back road bush recovery; Reliable Towing wrangles an overturned cattle hauler under smoke-filled skies; Jamie rescues a special semi.

An overturned load of heavy pipe becomes an all-out battle for Reliable Towing; Jamie considers buying another vintage wrecker; Mission Towing's Ken Duperon hustles to save a vehicle on the verge of sliding off a snowy mountain road.

Al and Gord search for a lost logging truck on a snowy back road; Jamie attempts a maneuver with Mighty Mo; Colin faces his fear while working on a semi.

Winter strikes hard and fast as Jamie Davis and his heavy rescue crew face tough new challenges in Hope, BC; a former operator returns but a spectacular wreck pushes him to the edge on his first mountain recovery.

The seasons first snowstorm paralyzes the Coquihalla Summit, launching Al Quiring and Gord Boyd into battle; Jamie Davis and a new operator from Ireland tackle a torn-up semi on a dangerous corner.

Jamie calls in his brothers Jason's rotator to tackle a recovery in the Canyon; the Mission towing team juggles a lost load of telephone poles; emergency responders race to a crash on the Coq involving one of Jamie's crew.

Colin takes the controls of Mighty Mo during a whiteout storm; Dylan encounters a semi on the edge of a cliff; Jamie and Paris attempt to bring an old dozer back to life.

Jamie and his team battle a B-train that's taken a deep dive on punishing terrain; Al takes on a spun-out trucker to keep an army of plows moving; Al's son Cary steps up in a quarter-million-dollar house move.

Jamie takes The Python off road for the first time; Jamie's brother Kelly battles high winds and a power pole to save a semi loaded with pipes; Gord Boyd picks up a new heavy wrecker for Quiring Towing.

Al recruits reinforcements to get truckers moving; Dylan faces a heavy breakdown on a remote job; Merv pilots a warplane through a city while Brian and Greg grapple with a mysterious load.

Producer and Host Mark Miller joins the crew of Jamie Davis Heavy Rescue for "Beer O'Clock" for a pre-game build up to the season finale. Jamie, Adam, Scott, Ken, Bruce, Kevin and the rest of the guys share beers and trade stories about season 2 on the Coq

A semi hits a barrier so hard that it tears off the trailer's rear axle, blocking the Coq's most important exit. Scott tells Jamie he's fed up with the vintage truck he's been driving, and a mysterious new driver shows up in the yard to start work.

A double-rotator recovery has the Aggressive team on the edge; a crash near the border tests Kirpal and his sons; Dylan takes Reliable's offroad warrior out for its first blacktop battle; Rooster is on the front lines of recovery and fatherhood.

For the first time all season Howie and Adam end up on the same BC wreck and the old Coq vet doesn’t like how the new guy is running the show. In Alberta, the crew faces one of its biggest challenges yet when they attempt a recovery with two big wreckers on a very narrow industrial road.

When winter strikes, Jamie's crew has to save a snowplow stuck in the grip of an icy river. Jamie pushes further into new territory, changes rock the company and the entire community says goodbye to a Heavy Rescue legend.

A record snowfall brings B.C.'s vital Coquihalla Highway to a standstill and sends shockwaves across the region. Howie leads a team on a dangerous recovery that sparks an unexpected emotional reaction. In Alberta, Adam and Colin have to get a toxic chemical wreck safely back on the road.

When a lumber truck and diesel tanker collide... the flaming wreckage becomes the biggest recovery of Colin's career. As snowstorms pummel the Coquihalla, Al Quiring heads up the hill, ready for battle. In freezing rain...John faces off against a mangled tractor and becomes a mentor in the process.

A local competitor challenges Jamie's status on the Hill. A trailer full of cat food bursts into flames - and Scott and Gord have to battle for two days to get the burning heap off the Smasher. Bruce gets into a fight that lands him in the hospital.

Jamie's new crew in British Columbia struggles with a mangled trailer on a blind and icy corner of highway 3. When Colin slips up on a big recovery in Alberta, Jamie's brother has to take over the job - even though he's new to the rotator.

In the season finale, Adam faces a tough personal choice about his future in Heavy Rescue. Jamie finds himself in harm’s way on one of the most technically difficult recoveries of the year. As Jamie looks ahead to next season, he makes a bold gamble that impacts both his BC and Alberta operations.

Tension between Jamie and Adam boil over as they struggle to flip a B-train on a narrow icy road. Adam comes close to quitting, but then backs off when Jamie makes him a promise. A two-car collision closes the snow shed and puts Ken's towing know-how to the test. A truckload of Christmas mail nearly goes off a cliff.

Al and Gord battle through a stormy night to keep the Coquihalla Highway open for Christmas. A semi plows off a bridge, stranding holiday travelers, and a remote logging road job forces Ken to relive his close call from last year.

A simple job turns into an urgent puzzle when a flipped semi pulls Jamie back out on the road; Randy Jacknife faces one of the biggest and heaviest challenges of his career against an overturned truck trapped under its load of steel.

HIGHWAY THRU HELL: AFTER THE CRASH catches up with the heavy rescue crew as they reflect over the highs and lows on the mountain last winter. In between highlight clips, showing some of the best and worst times they had the over the season's eight gripping episodes, the guys talk about their toughest wrecks, worst injuries, stormiest weather, tense moments on the team, and why they stick it out despite it all.

Jamie takes control of the rotator for the first time in months; Jamie turns to his competition for advice about a major decision that will determine the future of Heavy Rescue.

Al and Gord gamble on a job that's closed the highway and pushed both green wreckers to the limits; in Alberta, Jamie's crew battles a whiteout to reach a chain reaction wreck; in B.C., a wrecker is called in to help solve an underwater mystery.

Heavy rescue has to recover a severely damaged trailer loaded with millions of plastic beads. Spring rains are causing rock slides on Highway 1. When a B-train loaded with lumber drives off a cliff in order to avoid a boulder, Jamie's called in to recover the wreck before it falls down onto an active railroad line.

The Alberta crew faces a complex recovery with a million dollar truck while Jamie struggles with an unstable wreck. Colin is forced to go it alone after a freak snowstorm leaves the highway littered with crashed vehicles.

James Luke and the Reliable team contend with two detoured wrecks on the same punishing corner of a narrow route; MSA's Kirpal and sons must stretch a long line to reach a machine stuck on a farm.

A close call on the highway shows Brandon that fear is his best friend when it comes to staying alive. Jamie’s called to help save a woman trapped in an overturned truck submerged in an icy river. In Alberta, tempers flare in the extreme cold as the new crew is put to the test.

In B.C., a truck full of wine is sliced in half... Less than 24 hours after Jamie ships the Rotator to Alberta. Howie must tackle this monster recovery all on his own. And a cascade of wrecks on two different highways mean both Al Quiring and Adam Gazzola must face their own night from hell.

In the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, on the Coquihalla Highway, a small job turns into a major headache and a father's dreams of his stepson joining the family business backfires as Brandon Kodallas' aspirations of being a gym instructor and his disdain to drive a manual transmission vehicles does not sit well with anybody else, while teaching Ken about rigging, something the Richmond-based city towie doesn't do.

Team Reliable is in foggy chaos; Ken turns an off-road recovery into a joyride; Greg takes charge on his biggest recovery without the boss; Gord hustles to open the Coq's steepest stretch.

On his first job in a heavy wrecker since his heart attack, Ken Duperon faces a load of pipe outside a prison; a familiar face switches teams and leads Reliable Towing on a major recovery.

Al Quiring is in a high-pressure race to open the TransCanada Highway before rush hour. Jordie from Mission Towing faces a semi ready to split in two. Jamie Davis is running a race too when a pharmaceutical truck plunges down a bank.

Freezing rain covers Hope in a thick layer of ice, crippling Jamie's operations. A good friend of Jamie's is called into action when two semis collide head on, leaving wreckage scattered across the TransCanada Highway and a major rail line.

Jamie and crew wrestle to recover a trailer loaded with apples off a dangerous bridge. A multi-vehicle wreck turns deadly for a Good Samaritan. Scott returns after two weeks of forced vacation, hoping to finally get his new heavy rescue truck.

Jamie Davis, eager for the winter season to begin, has one thing on his mind - amp up his manpower and his equipment, so he's ready for anything that happens on the mountain. He has brought back a big crew - Adam Gazzola, Narayan Samy, Kevin Ritchie, Rob Mitchell, Bruce Hardy, Ken Monkhouse, the new guy Gord Lundin, and Davis' stepson Brandon Kodallas. Everyone has big, but not always realistic, expectations for the winter ahead.

Al and Gord work to rescue a loaded semi that's teetering on the edge of a 300-foot drop. Colin faces a white-knuckle drive on a remote Alberta back road, and Jamie tests out a new driver, who might be in over his head.

The biggest storm of the season is about to hit the Coq with a fury, just as Jamie discovers that his license has expired. His day gets even worse when Scott smashes the Rotator. When Jamie then gets a call for a dream job it turns into the most challenging recovery of the season.

In BC, new-hires Phil and Wayne face big problems when they get their chance to run big wreckers. Al runs into trouble on a steep and twisting logging road. In Alberta, Jamie and Adam race to open two highways when both roads to Fort McMurray shut down.

A double-trailer load of lumber has flipped and spilled across a quarter mile of highway. Even with three heavy rescue trucks, Jamie's crew doesn't have enough equipment to do the job.

A massive build up of snow on the Coq means avalanches are imminent if something isn’t done fast. In Alberta, Adam and Brandon face off in a clash that will change the course of the winter season.

Jamie's new operator hits a Coquihalla mudslide, while highway crews are in a life or death race to evacuate motorists and save vital infrastructure; Team Reliable braves floodwaters to rescue stranded residents; Jamie's hometown is cut off by wiped-out roads.

When Jamie and Jason Davis Heavy Recovery crews team up for a massive wreck, a close call forces Brandon to reconsider his future in the business; in Alberta, attempts to straighten out a jackknifed truck get twisted in unexpected directions.

A polar vortex brings extreme cold and brutal working conditions to truck drivers and heavy wrecker operators on The Coq; Colin fights to recover a frozen rig; Cam finds himself in a dilemma with one of Jamies classic wreckers.

Howie faces a seemingly impossible challenge after a massive wreck spills lumber across a busy highway. With his heavy wrecker in for repairs, Howie must use a few small trucks to try and tackle a very, very big job. In northern Alberta, the Rotator faces its first real test as the crew works to prove they can handle the heavy industrial wrecks and extreme weather.

When a dump truck and trailer crash into dense bush, Al Quiring and Sons become heavy rescue lumberjacks; with the help of Gord Boyd, Team Green overcame environmental obstacles and a twisted wreck trapped in the trees.

In Alberta and B.C., pipe trucks have rolled over and crews in both places race to open vital highways. Things for Al Quiring turn red hot when a trailer jammed with thousands of bottles of hot sauce is ripped open. Jamie and Brandon take a well-deserved break from clearing wrecks on the highway to compete in a car race on a frozen lake.

Gord is tested by the snowfall, and the Reliable crew's military rotator faces double trouble where no roads go.

Scott is dealt polar opposites in a surprise storm; Big John takes on a tractor buried in big timber; Merv gets a mangled holiday surprise; James Luke takes the next generation on a tow; an old friend brings a special gift for Jamie.

Dylan and Brandon attempt to recover a tippy sem. James Luke and Cary battle to save a unique machine, as MSA Towing navigates unusual conditions. Jamie's classic iron is pushed to its limits with a wreck that doesn't add up.

The men of Jamie Davis Heavy Rescue fight to keep open some of the most economically important, most traveled and most inhospitable trucking routes in North America.

Jamie and his brother team up for the most stunning wreck of the season; Al hauls a unique piece of equipment on a treacherous backroad; Brandon and highway crews face a difficult night on the Coq; Jamie adds a wrecker like no other to his fleet.

Jamie's right hand man Kevin shows up to a wreck without the gear he needs to control traffic. When Jamie confronts him, Kevin storms off the job.

Strategies collide when the Davis and Quiring families team up for a rare joint recovery that shuts down the busiest highway in B.C.; on the Coquihalla Highway, a big rig is left teetering in a seemingly impossible position.

Jamie Davis Heavy Rescue's 'A' team, Adam and Kevin, spend a busy morning clearing spun-out semis off the road when word comes that a multi-vehicle pile-up has closed down both northbound lanes.

Team MSA debuts their brand new 35-ton up on the Coquihalla to take on their first double heavy job with their own trucks; Aggressive Towing's junior operator Jaydan struggles to pull out a severe jackknife; blistering winds test Jamie with a subzero recovery.

Jamie battles a truck fire on the Coq and reveals big changes to his operation.

Jamie Davis travels across North America to explore the roots of heavy rescue, from the first tow truck, to the latest modern machines; his classic restoration, the Mighty Mo, finally comes to life.

As Jamie reaches a difficult crossroads, he looks back over four seasons, revisiting his most challenging wrecks and recoveries; familiar faces from past and present explain what drives them to this dangerous world; a look behind the cameras.