The Flaming Crisis is a short Western film about a news reporter who is wrongly imprisoned for murder. After several years in jail, he escapes to an unnamed city in the West and falls in love with a local cowgirl. In order to help his new community, he agrees to hunt down a gang of outlaws that is terrorizing the town (and chasing his girl); however, after this heroic act, he feels compelled to turn himself in to the police. In the end, the real murderer confesses and the reporter is free to marry the cowgirl.