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...

• DirectorGeorge S. Fleming
• Release21 January 1903
• GenreAction
• Duration0h 7m
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  5.996
  123 reviews
• Productions

  Edison Studios