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 . . .
《一个美国消防员的生活》的上映日期是1903-01。 《一个美国消防员的生活》的别名有:美国救火员的生活。