Fire Fighters: Tim Tries to Save Wife of Arsonist

Stand by all stations. Attention. That's it. Let's roll. Let's go! Fire, fighters! Fire, fighters! The true-to-life story of our unsung heroes who stand ready to ride by day or night against our most murderous enemy, the Demon of Fire!

In just a minute, we'll rejoin Tim Collins' rookie fireman at the scene of the Tenement Fire. Chief Cody estimates that the building will become the total loss because fire from its point of origin in the cellar is now racing up the stair shaft of the flimsy structure.

But there's an emergency to meet, because the rumor is just spread that in the top story, five floors above the ground, a man and his wife are trapped. Before the story is confirmed, well, here's something else you ought to know.

So, firefighters! Let's go to the intersection of Broad and Main Streets, where you remember Tim Collins and Chief Cody were discussing the possibility that the terrific fire in the Tenement House was caused by arson.

And just a moment ago, as they stood talking, a woman ran up. There were 12 families asleep in that building, Chief Cody, when somebody started the fire. It's worse than ours, and it could have been murder.

It's only luck that we got everybody out in time. Two minutes more and half of them wouldn't have had a chance for their lives. Yes, sir. What is it, ma'am? I know this woman, Chief. We took her out of the second floor, along with her baby.

Oh, Mr. Fireman, it's terrible. Now, Madam, you ought to stay with the others we let out of the building. You'll be safer there where everybody else is across the street. But everybody isn't there, that's what I'm trying to tell you.