WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:15.440 Five bells, stand by all stations. 00:15.440 --> 00:20.720 Attention, all districts, a five alarm fire, five bells, move in immediately. 00:20.720 --> 00:22.320 That's it, let's go! 00:22.320 --> 00:23.880 Let's go! 00:23.880 --> 00:25.880 Fire, fire! 00:25.880 --> 00:37.960 Presenting Fire Fighters, the true to life story of our unsung heroes who stand ready 00:37.960 --> 00:47.920 to ride by day or night against our most murderous enemy, the Demon of Fire. 00:47.920 --> 00:53.000 In just a minute we'll hear Tim Collins give his answer to Chief Cody, Tim's decision as 00:53.000 --> 00:58.080 to whether or not he'll swallow his ambition and postpone his transfer to the rescue company 00:58.080 --> 00:59.760 for the good of the department. 00:59.760 --> 01:20.520 But first, you'll want to hear this message. 01:20.520 --> 01:22.420 Let's go, Fire Fighters! 01:22.420 --> 01:26.200 Let's go to the office of Chief Cody at Fire Department headquarters, where you remember 01:26.200 --> 01:30.440 the Chief has put a difficult decision up to Tim Collins. 01:30.440 --> 01:35.160 Only a moment ago, Chief Cody admitted, Collins, you've got me over a barrel. 01:35.160 --> 01:39.360 You're right, I did say I had to approve your request for a transfer to any division of 01:39.360 --> 01:40.360 the Fire Department. 01:40.360 --> 01:42.520 Well, then what's the problem, Chief Cody? 01:42.520 --> 01:44.240 I've had the experience. 01:44.240 --> 01:46.480 You said you'd approve my application. 01:46.480 --> 01:49.680 I told you I want to transfer to the rescue company. 01:49.680 --> 01:52.240 And, well, what's the problem? 01:52.240 --> 01:55.160 My goodness, Timmy, I guess it's me. 01:55.160 --> 01:57.400 I mean, I'm the problem. 01:57.400 --> 01:59.560 That seems to be the crux of it, Collins. 01:59.560 --> 02:03.360 Miss Greville has a fire prevention pageant she wants to put on, but the brigade wants 02:03.360 --> 02:04.920 to stage Trudy's play. 02:04.920 --> 02:09.400 My fire prevention play, Tim, all about how the city almost burned down years ago and 02:09.400 --> 02:13.840 about a nasty arsonist going around setting fires. 02:13.840 --> 02:17.200 You can see why the kids prefer Trudy's play, Collins. 02:17.200 --> 02:21.200 The upshot will be that we'll have no fire prevention program at Northside at all, and 02:21.200 --> 02:22.200 the department needs it. 02:22.200 --> 02:26.440 Well, yes, sir, but Chief Cody doesn't the Bureau of Fire Prevention figure in that? 02:26.440 --> 02:30.000 Ever since we started the brigade, the Bureau has backed up the kids all the way. 02:30.000 --> 02:34.360 Well, I did have in mind a man who could straighten out this tangle, Collins, who could get Miss 02:34.360 --> 02:38.600 Greville and Trudy and the kids together so the whole project wouldn't go up in smoke. 02:38.600 --> 02:42.640 Oh, and all the guests invited, too, and even the mayor said he was coming. 02:42.640 --> 02:46.760 If that play blows up, it's going to be a black eye for the school, the brigade, and 02:46.760 --> 02:47.760 the Fire Department. 02:47.760 --> 02:49.200 Yes, don't I know it. 02:49.200 --> 02:53.320 Oh, hang it, I thought I had just the man who could step in and put it across. 02:53.320 --> 02:57.440 Well, that's all you need, Chief Cody, one man to help them whip their program into shape. 02:57.440 --> 03:00.120 Yes, yes, but the man I wanted slipped right through my fingers. 03:00.120 --> 03:03.320 Well, can't you talk to him, Chief, make him see how important this is? 03:03.320 --> 03:04.320 I tried to, son. 03:04.320 --> 03:08.800 I tried to persuade him to take a tour of special duty with the Bureau of Fire Prevention 03:08.800 --> 03:10.840 before he transfers to the rescue company. 03:10.840 --> 03:15.440 Oh, good grief, doesn't he see that a week or two doesn't make that much difference when 03:15.440 --> 03:16.440 ... Hey. 03:16.440 --> 03:17.440 Oh, Timmy, you're here. 03:17.440 --> 03:19.440 He is. 03:19.440 --> 03:22.440 He means me. 03:22.440 --> 03:25.440 Oh, Timmy, please. 03:25.440 --> 03:26.920 Chief Cody, can't you make him? 03:26.920 --> 03:28.480 Not unless he decides for himself, Judy. 03:28.480 --> 03:31.680 I promised him his choice when he asked for a transfer. 03:31.680 --> 03:34.920 Oh, Chief, good grief, what choice have I? 03:34.920 --> 03:37.440 Will you take this assignment, Collins, of your own free will? 03:37.440 --> 03:40.640 Well, sir, when it's for the good of the department, you bet I will. 03:40.640 --> 03:44.000 All right, Private Collins, you're temporarily attached to the Bureau of Fire Prevention. 03:44.000 --> 03:48.160 Now, go on out to Northside School and put on a fire prevention play that will do the 03:48.160 --> 03:50.520 department some good. 03:50.520 --> 03:55.000 The next day, Tim Collins, now a member of the Fire Prevention Bureau, calls on Miss 03:55.000 --> 03:59.360 Grebel, Director of Play Production at the great modern Northside School. 03:59.360 --> 04:03.800 As he knocks on the door of her office, he wonders, will he find her so stubborn that 04:03.800 --> 04:05.800 the fire prevention play must fail? 04:05.800 --> 04:06.800 Come in. 04:06.800 --> 04:07.800 It isn't locked. 04:07.800 --> 04:13.120 Miss Grebel, I'm Private Tim Collins of the Fire Prevention Bureau. 04:13.120 --> 04:14.120 Oh, excuse me. 04:14.120 --> 04:15.120 Oh, you're a fireman. 04:15.120 --> 04:16.120 Come in. 04:16.120 --> 04:18.920 Oh, let me move these papers off the chair. 04:18.920 --> 04:19.920 Don't bother. 04:19.920 --> 04:20.920 I can...here, let me... 04:20.920 --> 04:21.920 Oh! 04:21.920 --> 04:22.920 Oh, my head. 04:22.920 --> 04:26.000 Good grief, I'm a clumsy ox. 04:26.000 --> 04:28.360 Bumping heads with a lady even before I'm introduced. 04:28.360 --> 04:29.360 Oh, it doesn't matter. 04:29.360 --> 04:30.360 It was my fault. 04:30.360 --> 04:31.360 It doesn't hurt anyway. 04:31.360 --> 04:33.080 Oh, gosh, I'm sorry. 04:33.080 --> 04:37.160 Here, why don't you bang me over the skull with a book or something? 04:37.160 --> 04:38.160 So we'll be even. 04:38.160 --> 04:41.080 No, you can owe me one free whack. 04:41.080 --> 04:42.080 Don't think I won't collect. 04:42.080 --> 04:43.080 Well, that's a bargain. 04:43.080 --> 04:44.080 Now, don't forget. 04:44.080 --> 04:48.600 It's lucky Miss Grebel didn't walk in and find us banging our heads together. 04:48.600 --> 04:51.160 Oh, but I'm Miss Grebel, Mr. Collins. 04:51.160 --> 04:52.640 Chief Cody said that... 04:52.640 --> 04:53.640 You? 04:53.640 --> 04:57.880 Oh, oh, a student teacher training with your sister? 04:57.880 --> 05:01.400 She's the one I'm supposed to see, the Miss Grebel in charge of plays and stuff. 05:01.400 --> 05:02.400 Oh, but that's me. 05:02.400 --> 05:03.400 I'm she. 05:03.400 --> 05:07.120 I mean, I mean, I haven't any sisters. 05:07.120 --> 05:09.720 Chief Cody phoned that you were coming to see me. 05:09.720 --> 05:11.880 Why, are you sure? 05:11.880 --> 05:16.360 I mean, well, gosh, I thought Miss Grebel was much older. 05:16.360 --> 05:17.960 Is that my fault, Mr. Collins? 05:17.960 --> 05:22.600 No, no, but things like that didn't happen when I was a student here. 05:22.600 --> 05:26.440 I'm sorry if you find Northside School is changed for the worse. 05:26.440 --> 05:27.640 Oh, no, no, ma'am. 05:27.640 --> 05:29.880 I find the old school much improved. 05:29.880 --> 05:30.880 In fact, I... 05:30.880 --> 05:31.880 Oh, excuse me. 05:31.880 --> 05:32.880 Yes, Mr. Collins? 05:32.880 --> 05:34.040 Oh, somebody just came in. 05:34.040 --> 05:35.440 Oh, hi, Trudy. 05:35.440 --> 05:36.440 What do you want? 05:36.440 --> 05:37.440 What are you doing here? 05:37.440 --> 05:38.440 Oh, my goodness, it's my school, isn't it? 05:38.440 --> 05:41.800 Where else would I be this time of day, besides Miss Grebel sent for me? 05:41.800 --> 05:42.800 Oh, yes, Trudy. 05:42.800 --> 05:45.640 Mr. Collins, when Chief Cody phoned that you were coming... 05:45.640 --> 05:48.320 But if I'm interrupting something, I can wait outside. 05:48.320 --> 05:49.320 Certainly not, Trudy. 05:49.320 --> 05:50.320 Sit down. 05:50.320 --> 05:51.760 Yeah, yes, you sit right down. 05:51.760 --> 05:52.760 We're all here to... 05:52.760 --> 05:55.640 To talk about the fire prevention play for a week from yesterday. 05:55.640 --> 05:57.280 Oh, yes, the play. 05:57.280 --> 05:58.520 That's what we're here for. 05:58.520 --> 06:00.360 And well, the play. 06:00.360 --> 06:01.640 Now, what about it? 06:01.640 --> 06:06.560 Well, my feeling is that the best way to present the case for fire prevention is through a pageant. 06:06.560 --> 06:09.640 But there seems to be some opposition. 06:09.640 --> 06:11.880 In fact, a tremendous amount of opposition. 06:11.880 --> 06:13.360 Oh, my goodness, Miss Grebel. 06:13.360 --> 06:18.320 The Firefighters Brigade, we don't want to be mean or uncooperational, but... 06:18.320 --> 06:23.640 But you kids have sold yourselves on the idea of a regular play instead of a pageant. 06:23.640 --> 06:26.480 Something of everything from the burning of Rome right up to today. 06:26.480 --> 06:27.480 Oh, yes, that's it. 06:27.480 --> 06:29.120 But we'd rather have a play. 06:29.120 --> 06:31.360 And I don't want to be high-handed, Mr. Collins. 06:31.360 --> 06:36.140 I do truly want to cooperate with the children, but, you see, I represent the best interests 06:36.140 --> 06:37.140 of Northside School. 06:37.140 --> 06:39.840 Somehow I've got to represent the Firefighters Brigade. 06:39.840 --> 06:42.840 And between you, it looks as if there won't be any program at all. 06:42.840 --> 06:47.240 And for the best interests of the Fire Prevention Bureau, which I represent, that's bad. 06:47.240 --> 06:51.280 Well, since we just can't seem to get together, Mr. Collins. 06:51.280 --> 06:52.280 Yeah. 06:52.280 --> 06:53.280 What's that, an alarm? 06:53.280 --> 06:58.040 No, Mr. Collins, surely it isn't so long since you graduated that you don't recognize that 06:58.040 --> 06:59.040 bell. 06:59.040 --> 07:00.040 Don't run for the fire host, Tim. 07:00.040 --> 07:01.440 It's only the passing bell. 07:01.440 --> 07:02.440 Oh, oh, sure. 07:02.440 --> 07:04.280 Hey, where's everybody going? 07:04.280 --> 07:05.520 I have an auditorium class. 07:05.520 --> 07:06.520 I've got home- 07:06.520 --> 07:07.520 We haven't settled anything. 07:07.520 --> 07:10.000 Well, how can we when we're deadlocked? 07:10.000 --> 07:12.320 Nobody's mad at anybody, but we just can't agree. 07:12.320 --> 07:14.520 So we'll have to give up the whole thing. 07:14.520 --> 07:15.640 No, no, no, no, wait, wait. 07:15.640 --> 07:18.040 Here, I'll shut the door so I can hear myself thinking. 07:18.040 --> 07:20.760 Mr. Collins, you'll make us late for class. 07:20.760 --> 07:23.880 Oh, my goodness, Miss Romney will just simply devour me if I'm late. 07:23.880 --> 07:25.800 Ladies, the fire department is in charge. 07:25.800 --> 07:29.300 You'll have to listen just for one second unless you climb out the window and get to 07:29.300 --> 07:30.300 class that way. 07:30.300 --> 07:32.000 Mr. Collins, stand away from that door. 07:32.000 --> 07:33.200 Not until you hear me. 07:33.200 --> 07:35.400 Miss Grebel, that pageant of yours, it's good. 07:35.400 --> 07:37.800 Well, you let us go when Chief Cody hears- 07:37.800 --> 07:38.800 Huh? 07:38.800 --> 07:40.960 Oh, you read my pageant? 07:40.960 --> 07:45.160 Trudy and Jimmy told me all about it, and it's good because you've written into it every 07:45.160 --> 07:47.840 point of fire prevention Chief Cody wants to get across. 07:47.840 --> 07:50.240 Oh, Timmy, I thought you liked my play. 07:50.240 --> 07:56.080 I do, Trudy, because that play has action, life, real people talking, so the audience 07:56.080 --> 07:58.120 would listen to catch every word. 07:58.120 --> 08:02.840 Mr. Collins, either you like everything or you can't decide what you like. 08:02.840 --> 08:06.280 I'll tell you what I would like, Miss Grebel, and what Chief Cody would like, too. 08:06.280 --> 08:10.600 A play with real people in it like Trudy's to put across all the points of fire prevention 08:10.600 --> 08:11.600 like yours. 08:11.600 --> 08:15.000 Oh, my goodness, then we need some more writers and a whole new play, and there's only a week 08:15.000 --> 08:16.000 to go. 08:16.000 --> 08:20.080 Well, why don't you girls, I mean you ladies, why don't you get together, make one good 08:20.080 --> 08:22.360 play out of what you both have now? 08:22.360 --> 08:24.560 Why, that's possible, but I- No. 08:24.560 --> 08:27.280 No, I don't like your methods, Mr. Collins. 08:27.280 --> 08:30.120 I certainly won't, if Miss Grebel won't, us ladies stand together. 08:30.120 --> 08:34.520 Well, then I've let Chief Cody down, he's the one that loses most, you know, because 08:34.520 --> 08:35.840 I failed on this assignment. 08:35.840 --> 08:40.000 Oh, no, if it were for Chief Cody- But you hadn't practically kidnapped us, Tim 08:40.000 --> 08:41.000 Collins. 08:41.000 --> 08:45.320 You know what the Chief thinks of his fire prevention campaign, I just did what I did, 08:45.320 --> 08:53.280 hoping you'd see it from his side if I kept you here long enough to- Well, there, the 08:53.280 --> 08:57.200 door's open, you can go to your classes now, I'm sorry I kept you- 08:57.200 --> 09:01.880 Well, if Miss Grebel would, only for Chief Cody though, and I'm going to tell Mom what 09:01.880 --> 09:03.640 you did, you see if I don't, Timmy Collins. 09:03.640 --> 09:09.280 Oh, now Trudy, your brother was only trying to- Well, Trudy, we could try it, for Chief 09:09.280 --> 09:10.280 Cody? 09:10.280 --> 09:12.640 After school this afternoon, shall we, Miss Grebel? 09:12.640 --> 09:16.000 You'll be here in my office as soon as you can after dismissal, now run along dear. 09:16.000 --> 09:18.760 Oh yes, Miss Grebel, oh my goodness, I'm late as light! 09:18.760 --> 09:21.200 Well, I'll tell Miss Lammonie you were delayed for good reason. 09:21.200 --> 09:22.680 Oh, thank you, Miss Grebel! 09:22.680 --> 09:25.760 Maybe I could tell the principal you were late for good reason, would that help, Miss 09:25.760 --> 09:27.040 Grebel? 09:27.040 --> 09:29.680 I'd rather not bother to do me any favors, Mr. Collins. 09:29.680 --> 09:33.640 I'm quite able to take care of myself. 09:33.640 --> 09:38.480 And soon afterward, as Tim Collins reports to Chief Cody at headquarters, the young fireman 09:38.480 --> 09:39.480 confesses. 09:39.480 --> 09:44.080 Oh, I've got myself in a jam, Chief, both Trudy and Miss Grebel are mad at me now. 09:44.080 --> 09:46.080 But the play, Collins, they're going on with that plan. 09:46.080 --> 09:50.120 Well, for your sake, Chief, they're going to write a fire prevention play between them. 09:50.120 --> 09:51.800 Good, we need that publicity for the campaign. 09:51.800 --> 09:55.400 Oh, we'll get it, sir, but good grief, I'm in for a bad week. 09:55.400 --> 09:57.840 Well, why don't you keep away from the school then, Collins? 09:57.840 --> 10:01.120 As long as they've decided to work together, why not drop out of sight? 10:01.120 --> 10:02.800 Oh, that wouldn't be fair, Chief Cody. 10:02.800 --> 10:04.160 Sounds like good judgment to me. 10:04.160 --> 10:09.920 Oh, no, sir, you see, first thing in Miss Grebel's office, I bumped her head with mine. 10:09.920 --> 10:12.840 You know, clearing things off a chair, both stooping together. 10:12.840 --> 10:14.480 She has my sympathy. 10:14.480 --> 10:16.320 Those Collins' heads are hard as rock. 10:16.320 --> 10:20.240 Yes, sir, but she's entitled to one free swing at my skull with a book. 10:20.240 --> 10:24.560 And in fairness, I should be around when she decides it's time to collect. 10:24.560 --> 10:31.280 Well, Tim Collins has succeeded in getting Miss Grebel and Trudy to cooperate for the 10:31.280 --> 10:33.560 sake of the fire prevention program. 10:33.560 --> 10:36.240 But what kind of a play will they turn out? 10:36.240 --> 10:40.040 For the Firefighters Brigade performance, just as it is presented in the auditorium 10:40.040 --> 10:50.700 at Northside School, listen to our next True to Life episode of the Firefighters. 10:50.700 --> 10:54.540 In just a moment, Chief Bob Cody will tell you boys and girls how you can help the firefighters 10:54.540 --> 10:56.120 in your own town. 10:56.120 --> 11:05.120 But first, here is a message you ought to hear. 11:05.120 --> 11:08.560 And now Chief Bob Cody with a special notice for the Firefighters Brigade. 11:08.560 --> 11:09.560 Chief Cody. 11:09.560 --> 11:10.840 Hello, boys and girls, this is Chief Cody. 11:10.840 --> 11:13.880 Do you know how many jobs there are in a modern fire department? 11:13.880 --> 11:17.040 Well, there's the truck man, the member of a hook and ladder company. 11:17.040 --> 11:21.920 Now, his job is to ventilate a burning building, search for living creatures in need of rescue, 11:21.920 --> 11:25.360 and afterward, overhaul the ruins to prevent a new outbreak of flames. 11:25.360 --> 11:27.920 Well, next time I'll tell you about another job. 11:27.920 --> 11:28.920 So long for now. 11:28.920 --> 11:32.920 Fire Chief Cody and the young rookie fireman Tim Collins will be back on the same station 11:32.920 --> 11:34.440 the next time you hear... 11:34.440 --> 11:37.440 That's it. 11:37.440 --> 11:40.440 Let's go! 11:40.440 --> 11:43.440 Let's go! 11:43.440 --> 11:45.440 Firefighters! 11:45.440 --> 11:47.440 Firefighters! 11:47.440 --> 11:49.440 Firefighters! 11:49.440 --> 11:55.440 Firefighters is a copyrighted feature of William F. 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