The Fourth Alarm

{{For|the short story by John Cheever|The Fourth Alarm (short story)}}

{{Infobox film

| name = The Fourth Alarm

| image = Poster of the movie The Fourth Alarm.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Robert F. McGowan

| writer = Hal Roach
H. M. Walker
Robert A. McGowan

| producer = Hal Roach
F. Richard Jones

| starring =

| narrator =

| cinematography =

| editing = Richard C. Currier

| music =

| distributor = Pathé Exchange

| released = {{film date|1926|9|12}}

| runtime = 20 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

| budget =

}}

The Fourth Alarm is a 1926 short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/F/FourthAlarm1926.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: The Fourth Alarm |accessdate=September 14, 2008|work=silentera.com}}{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/226171/The-Fourth-Alarm/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091101103140/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/226171/The-Fourth-Alarm/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 1, 2009 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Hal Erickson |title=New York Times: The Fourth Alarm |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2009 |accessdate=September 14, 2008}} It was the 53rd Our Gang short subject to be released.{{cite book |last1=Maltin |first1=Leonard |last2=Bann |first2=Richard W. |title=Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals |date=1977 |publisher=Crown Publishers |pages=67–68 |url=https://archive.org/details/ourganglifetimes0000malt/page/66/mode/2up |access-date=3 March 2024}} It was later reworked in Hook and Ladder in 1932.

Notes

This is Mary Kornman's final Our Gang appearance as a child. She would appear again later in several episodes as an adult.

Plot

The group establishes their own junior fire department by repurposing an old barn into a firehouse. However, when they are called to a real fire, they encounter challenges, particularly Farina, who struggles to manage the high pressure of the fire hose.