What town wouldn’t feel safe with a fire chief that’s confident, cool, calm, and collected? That isn’t the case in the Donald Duck cartoon short Fire Chief, released on this day in 1940. With Donald in the role, it would be enough to have any town seeing red. Matters are only complicated with the presence of his nuisance nephews, and the only place that catches fire is the firehouse itself. With that crack, er, quack, team at the helm, the whole place goes up in smoke, proving once again Donald and his nephews are far from a perfect match.
