A dog race is held to determine the best-fit dogs for a sled dog team to get the medicine. However, severe winter weather conditions prevent medicine from being brought by sea or air and the closest rail line from Juneau ends at Nenana, 600 miles east of Nome. The local wireless operator relays news of the outbreak and word travels to the territory capital of Juneau, where the governor orders a crate of antitoxin to be sent to Nome. Curtis Welch informs that Rosy and the other children have been stricken with diphtheria, and he is out of antitoxin.
The evening after the annual dog race, 18 children, including Rosy, are taken to a hospital, apparently feeling very ill, which worries Jenna. He is routinely challenged by the town's favorite sled dog, Steele, a fierce and arrogant Alaskan Malamute with whom he competes for Jenna's attention. His only friends in town are a red husky named Jenna whom Balto has a crush on, and her owner, Rosy. Being half-wolf, Balto is shunned by dogs and humans alike. Balto, a young wolfdog, lives in the outskirts of Nome with his adoptive father, a snow goose named Boris and two polar bears, Muk and Luk.
The story goes back to the winter of 1925 in Nome, Alaska. As they seat themselves for a rest, the grandmother tells a story of the 1925 serum run to Nome. In New York City, an elderly woman, her granddaughter and her Siberian Husky, Blaze, are walking through Central Park, looking for a memorial statue.
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