- Country: USA
- Genres: Action, Short
- Release: 1903-01-01
- Director: George S. Fleming , Edwin S. Porter
- Writers: Edwin S. Porter
- Language: None | English
- Stars: Edwin S. Porter , Vivian Vaughan , Arthur White , James H. White
- Runtime: 6 min
- Awards: 1 win
- AKA: Живот америчког ватрогасца (Serbia) , Vida de um Bombeiro Americano (Brazil) , アメリカ消防士の生活 (Japan) , Life of an American Fireman (United States of America) , Egy amerikai tűzoltó élete (Hungary) , A Vida de Um Bombeiro Americano (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , The Life of an American Fireman (United States of America) , Life of an American Fireman , Жизнь американского пожарного (Russian Federation) , Животът на един американски пожарникар (Bulgaria)
- Plot:
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 . . .
- IMDB:tt0000447
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