Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect the safe rescue of a woman from the burning house. But wait, she tells them of her child yet asleep in the burning bedroom...
Vivian Vaughan
The Girl

James H. White
The Fire Chief

Arthur White
The Fireman (uncredited)

Edwin S. Porter
Policeman
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January 21, 1903
Runtime
0h 7m
Genres
Action
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