After Chet takes to playing John's guitar, John gives it to him. The firefighters rescue a man and a girl's horse from a fire caused by moonshine. Dixie gives a man a stern lecture about forgetting his insulin shots. When a woman calls the hospital threatening suicide, Dr. Brackett and Dixie keep her talking, while the firefighters track her down; later, John and Roy find themselves hostages when they are called to aid a heart patient–the manager of a bank being held up by two armed men.

A large brush fire sends out several fire stations, except Squad 51, which is returned to quarters, disappointing Johnny and Roy, who monitor the fire events on the radio and TV. Dixie gets her hand caught in a malfunctioning coffee machine; Johnny and Roy help free it, then save a lawyer who had suffered a heart attack in the courtroom. Roy comforts the wife of a fireman injured in the brush fire, then the paramedics, (finally!) called to assist in the fire, get trapped by the flames while rescuing another firefighter.