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clumsiness earns him some more knock-down punishment.
As he lies prostrate, the chief becomes remorseful and lifts him up. Charlie kicks him into a bucket of water, shins up the pole, and resorts to prayer as he sees the chief working his way up after him. Charlie is saved by the timely entrance of the chief's sweetheart and her father, who takes him aside to whisper, "Let my house burn. I'll get the insurance. You wed my daughter."
Later when an alarm interrupts Charlie and another fireman at a game of checkers Charlie stuffs a handkerchief in the bell as a silencer. When the owner* of the burning house calls, Charlie nonchalantly picks up the phone, shrugs as he confuses his pipe and the earpiece, and ends by ripping out the telephone wire. The frantic owner storms into the firehouse and falls, sobbing, on Charlie's shoulder. Charlie, moved, also begins yelling "Help! Fire!" Handing the owner a book to relax with, he goes to fetch the captain from the girl's house.
Back at the firehouse the fire victim pores over the book, absentmindedly looks up, recalls the fire, and starts raving again. Upstairs the firemen jump out of bed, rush out of the camera frame, to return, immediately, in uniform. The engine strews men and equipment all along the road. Before the burning house the men go into a musical comedy fire drill, passing axes from left to right shoulder and executing dance steps.
Meanwhile the insurance-hungry father sets his house afire, unwittingly trapping his daughter on the third floor. Frantic, he hunts for the firemen, finally locating them at the other fire. Charlie, on the driver's seat, rides like the wind, only to lose most of the engine turning a sharp corner. Little is left except the seat when he arrives at the fire; but he makes up for it by climbing up the face of the building to make a heroic rescue.