Firemen seemed to be a popular subject of the early filmmakers. This, of course, was the year that Porter's Life of an American Fireman was released so perhaps that was the reason for so many shots of fire engines pulled by teams of horses racing around various city streets. I've seen a few of these old firemen movies, but haven't yet seen any footage of them actually battling a fire. If you watch this film closely you'll see that one of their vehicles actually has street urchins hanging off the back. The camera, operated by one B. Bitzer, is static and the angle is all wrong because the engines aren't on screen long enough before they have whizzed past. Interesting enough as, to me, are all these street scene films from the early days of cinema.