FIRST RESPONDERS weaves together the stories of several different responders. As the movie develops, the audience sees the pain and suffering of first responders. First, Mark and his firefighter comrades go to a tremendous house fire and rescue a girl, who tells them her brother’s still inside. Mark goes to the little brother and finds out he’s been burned to death. This breaks Mark’s heart and causes advanced PTSD. Meanwhile, a policewoman is shot when she pulls over a car. Her husband, an ambulance driver, is devastated, as is Mark’s wife the policewoman’s best friend.