Description: The film opens with a shots of the fire service personnel lined up in uniform in front of their station on London Road in Isleworth. This is followed with shots of a model of a fire engine of the 1881 period called 'Old Faithful' with brass fittings and a wagon chassis. A boy dressed as a fireman pulls the engine around the fire station yard, assisted by a real fireman. A pair of firemen illustrate the fireman's lift on a couple of colleagues lying prone. A hook ladder drill is enacted on the station's fire tower. This is followed by a mock fire exercise, with a man calling for help inside the fire tower where a small fire is burning, a passer-by rushes to raise assistance, running into town to pull on a public fire alarm situated near the Bridge Inn on London Road. The Heston & Isleworth fire station receive the call, and the men rush into action, sliding down a fireman's pole, putting on their protective clothing, boarding and engine and driving away. Men and engine are then seen at the base of the fire tower, with ladders being wheeled into position, raised and used to rescue the trapped man. An audience look on from the balconied walkways at the rear of the block of flats on Spring Grove Road, adjacent to the fire station (Central Fires Station flats). The firemen then demonstrate the use of fire hoses and how they access water. The fire in the tower is extinguished. The men next demonstrate a rescue from a building wearing breathing apparatus. An unconscious man is carried from his burning flat. The next section imagines the fire brigade of the future with the men in rubber suits and full gas masks sealing their bodies. A cutting plant is shown at work, using an intense gas flame to burn through a metal structure and release a dummy playing the role of a trapped man. The next display is of an aeroplane rescue using fire retardant foam and asbestos suits. A biplane is set alight and then extinguished by the firemen, with men in the asbestos suits rescuing a dummy pilot from the cockpit.