Fires Were Started

Covering twenty-four hours in London during the Blitz, Fires Were Started is the story of a day in the life of the Auxiliary Fire Service.

On the same day that a new recruit joins up, warning comes in that a heavy attack is expected that night. Fires Were Started is disputably both fiction and documentary – it is a re-enactment, but of real events, using actual A.F.S servicemen and women as its leading roles. An astonishingly intimate portrait of a besieged Britain.