A special issue of the newsreel contains material about the fires that occurred in the years. Leningrad, Kuibyshev, Riga, about the terrible consequences of non-compliance with fire safety standards. A firefighter extinguishes a fire in a building. A building in smoke, a burning window of a multi-storey building. Burning room. Resuscitation, doctors bent over the child. The child sleeps on a dropper. View of the room burned out after the fire. The guys are engaged in the workshop of the aviation club, they talk about how the guys set fire to a mop soaked in gasoline, a fire broke out, as a result of which their friend died. Photos of the burned-out room in the Makatikhins' apartment. The girl tells how her drunken parents dropped their cigarette and a fire broke out, her grandmother, younger sister and two guests perished in the fire. Boys stand by a fire at a construction site, in the background is a multi-storey residential building. The woman talks about how a fire broke out at a construction site, due to which three boys received severe burns and died in the hospital. Children who witnessed the fire tell how it happened. The child plays in the playground. The teenager V. Smazhenyuk talks about the tragedy, how he put out the fire, saved the children. A teenager A. Kurbatov tells how he and his friends set fire to a barrel of paint, how he was burned and was in the hospital for six months. Children play in a kindergarten group, one of the girls talks about how she got to the hospital with a burn. A nurse watching children in a hospital ward. A girl reads a book on a bed in a hospital ward. School building, schoolchildren come out. Drawing lesson at school. Labor lesson, cr.pl. - the faces of schoolchildren.