This article lists characters of the television series Emergency!.
Roy DeSoto is portrayed by actor Kevin Tighe. DeSoto worked with partner John Gage as a firefighter/paramedic for the Los Angeles County Fire Department at Station 51. He first met Gage when he was recruiting personnel for the newly designated paramedic program, of which he was in the first group of six graduates. He assisted the physicians with instruction during Gage's class at Rampart General Hospital, where his mentors were Dr. Kelly Brackett, Nurse Dixie McCall, and Dr. Joe Early. He was married, and had a son (Chris) and a daughter who was never canonically named, though only his wife, Joanne, appeared in the pilot of the series. His family also has a dog. In the episode "The Exam," we find out he was born on 7 November and is therefore a Scorpio.
While his single partner was often portrayed as intense and impulsive, DeSoto was more quiet and often served to keep Gage under control. As with his partner, very little is discussed about DeSoto's life prior to the fire service, other than he spent some time in the military (Tighe himself was in the U.S. Army) during the 1960s.
We'll be young forever
We'll be young forever
We can be like prisoners
And we can be alone
We can make a mess like no one knows
And risk it on our own
Spendin' the money that we don't have
Cause we don't care no
Livin' like kings with broken strings
And bass down to the floor
Livin' with our headphones up
We got sound and that's enough
Nobody can touch us
And we run and we run and we run
Hey hey we'll be young forever
We'll be young forever till forever stops
We're singing
Hey hey we'll be on forever
Tonight we'll last forever till our bodies drop
We can run through the night
Write our name up in the sky
Got the music on our side
Ain't nobody gonna catch us singin'
Hey hey we'll be young forever
On the run forever and we'll never stop
(Don't stop, don't stop now)
Look at us look at us we'll take the whole world by surprise
Million dollar- mind set in place you can see it in our eyes
Everything here is ours to take, so come and take your side
Livin' like kings with broken strings
And the bass so sympathized
We can turn the speakers up
Cause we got sound and that's enough
Nobody can touch us
And we run and we run and we run
Hey hey we'll be young forever
We'll be young forever till forever stops
We're singing
Hey hey we'll be on forever
Tonight we'll run forever till our bodies drop
We can run through the night
Write our name up in the sky
Got the music on our side
Ain't no body gonna catch us singin'
Hey hey we'll be young forever
On the world forever and we'll never stop
(Don't stop, don't stop now)
Ohoah
Ohoah
We're gonna rule the world tonight
Ohoah
Ohoah
The beat of the Drums Keep us alive
(Tonight will last forever till our bodies drop)
Hey hey we'll be young forever
We'll be young forever till forever stops
We're singing
Hey hey we'll be young forever
Tonight we'll run forever till our bodies drop
We can run through the night
Write our name up in the sky
We can run run run away
(Nobody gonna catch us)
Ain't no body gonna catch us singin'
Hey hey we'll be young forever
On the run forever and we'll never stop
(Don't stop, don't stop now)
We can run run run away