The Fifth Alarm!

Released
August 10, 1926

Starring

 * Bonedust
 * Farina
 * Jackie
 * Jay R.
 * Joe
 * Johnny
 * Mary
 * Scooter

Story
It is a hot day in August and the gang being in their grass skirts is perfectly normal. They are playing on a water slide set up by the fire station when the department is called away to fight a fire. Moments later a neighboring house catches fire, so the gang takes a bunch of fire extinguishers and rushes to the house to battle the fire.

The blaze is bigger than expected, but the rascals make good progress in battling the blaze, but suddenly Bonedust’s grass skirt catches fire. Mary alertly trains her fire extinguisher on Bonedust and puts out that fire, but her own skirt catches a spark. There follows a sequence where everyone’s skirt catches fire and is extinguished. The fire extinguisher foam rises rapidly past waist level, or chest level for Farina and Scooter, which is fortunate as the grass skirts have been damaged enough so that they all fall off.

In the effort to keep each other from burning, the gang lets the fire grow again. They attack the blazes again, but the flames are still going as the foam rises to Farina and Scooter’s necks. Refusing to give up, the gang keeps battling, and finally gets all the flames out as the foam reaches their necks. They run out of the house, covered in enough foam bubbles to make it to their barn decently and jump into a huge hayloft where they make new grass skirts out of all the hay. Except for Farina and Scooter, who stumble around in the house because the foam has risen over their heads. It takes them ten minutes to find their way out, and then they run to barn covered in lots of foam bubbles and join their friends, also making new grass skirts.

The burning house suffered more damage than it would have if competent firefighters had been present, so the gang puzzles how to become a better fire department. One thing that would help is better uniforms, but under their current circumstances that is not a possibility.