A decommissioned 1904 firehouse on Manhattan's Spring Street holds the collection, and the building itself is part of the story: brass poles, apparatus bays, and quarters built for horses and hand-drawn engines before motorized trucks replaced them. The film walks through the museum's chronology of New York firefighting from the colonial bucket brigades to the present, using the artifacts on display, old helmets, uniforms, alarm boxes, restored engines, as the evidence for each era rather than narration alone. A dedicated section covers September 11, 2001, and the firefighters who died responding that day, treated as the most recent chapter in a long institutional history rather than a separate topic. Produced by Great Museums TV for public television, the film moves at the pace of a gallery walk-through, letting the objects and their placement in a working firehouse-turned-museum carry the history. It is a plain record of what the museum holds and why a 1904 firehouse was kept intact to hold it.