Fireman

Charlie Chaplin plays a fireman and produces trouble in the firehouse instead of helping to put out fires. But in the end, he rescues the Fire Captain's sweetheart, Edna Purviance, from a burning house and becomes her hero.

A beautiful girl's father arranges with the local fire chief to have his house burn down so he can collect the insurance money. In exchange for the chief's complicity in the arson, the father will permit the chief to marry his daughter. The firemen ignore an inhabitant of the burning building as he tries to alert them to the fire, first by activating the fire alarm, then by phoning the fire station in person. Eventually, a fireman (Chaplin), alerts the fire chief and the company extinguishes the fire.