There is no malicious vendetta, there is no over-exaggeration, there are no trumped-up facts. Police worked until 4 am the next morning, under lighting, to remove all the bodies. Like all areas of forensic investigations, it has come on leaps and bounds. "At the time of the disaster, many stadiums had perimeter fencing between the stands and the pitch to prevent The Popplewell Inquiry found that the club had been warned about the fire risk that the rubbish accumulating under the stand had posed. "In 2014, the theatre company Funny You Should Ask (FYSA) premiered their heartfelt tribute to the 56 people who died at the fire. "Adams also went on to state that "I have read in some newspapers that he is being berated for his campaign to have a new inquiry. Mathew Wildman, aged 17 at the time of the fire, commented that "I must have had five different experiments carried out on me with all sorts of new techniques for skin grafts and I had potions injected into me that helped my face repair naturally over time. The match kicked off at 3:04pm and after 40 minutes of the first half, the score remained 0–0, in what was described as a drab affair with neither team threatening to score. Called 'The 56' the play dramatises actual accounts of the Bradford City Fire with the purpose of the play showing how in times of adversity, the Football Club and the local community came together.On 1 May 2010, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fire the football TV show In 1986, a year after the disaster, Yorkshire Television aired a documentary presented by John Helm entitled Following his own 15 year investigation Into the fire, which killed four of his family members while he escaped, former tax accountant Martin Fletcher released "In 1985 fire investigation in Britain was in its infancy and some would say at that time most fire investigators were not much more than dust-kickers. However, the responsibility of the Club is, in my view, very much the greater and I apportion responsibility between the two defendants as to two-thirds on the first defendant and one-third on the third (sic) defendant. Professor David Sharpe founded the Bradford Burns Unit after he received many of the burns victims from the Bradford Fire Disaster in 1985. Police officers also assisted in the rescue attempts. The fact the inquiry also embraced the investigation into another incident which happened on the same day, a riot in which a young boy died at Birmingham City, makes it seem more frivolous. The most memorable of hundreds of fundraising events was a reunion of the For the 30th anniversary of the fire a new version of "A capacity 6,000 crowd attended a multi-denominational memorial service, held on the pitch in the sunny shadow of the burnt out stand at Valley Parade in July 1985. His father Tony went back the following day and said: "I wondered how anybody had got out alive, but I also began to feel The Bradford Disaster Appeal fund, set up within 48 hours of the disaster, eventually raised over £3.5 million (£10.7 million today). "West Yorkshire Metropolitan Borough Council was found to have failed in its duty under the Fire Precautions Act 1971.The outcome of the test case resulted in over 154 claims being addressed (110 civilians and 44 police officers)Central to the test case were two letters sent to Bradford City's Club Secretary by the During the case, Sir Joseph Canley stated that: "It is only right that I should say that I think it would be unfair to conclude that Mr Heginbotham, Mr Tordoff, the Board of Directors, or any of them, were intentionally and callously indifferent to the safety of spectators using the stand. However, there is a lot in this book that troubles me about the science, or lack of it, used in the testing of the investigators' hypothesis as to the source of the ignition. I do not include the people currently running the club, who have always displayed a great, sensitive duty to the memory of those who died. Bradford City continues to support the burns unit at the Although there had been some changes to other parts of the ground, the main stand remained unaltered by 1985.The Bradford City matchday squad of players and staff consisted of The match kicked off at 3:04pm and after 40 minutes of the first half, the score remained 0–0,Helm described the start of the fire in an interview to the One witness saw paper or debris on fire, about nine inches (230 mm) below the floor boards.Spectators later spoke of initially feeling their feet becoming warmer; one of them ran to the back of the stand for a The stand's wooden roof, covered with layers of highly flammable There were no extinguishers in the stand's passageway for fear of vandalism, and one spectator ran to the clubhouse to find one, but was overcome by smoke and impeded by others trying to escape.