Art: Fiery Pictures

London’s Auxiliary Fire Service, starting from scratch, has developed a talent for heroism. But its members had other talents to begin with. Some of them were shown last fortnight.

In London the A. F. S. put on an art show by its members. Most of the exhibitors had been commercial artists in peacetime. Their show was all eyewitness stuff: fires, explosions, firemen climbing ladders, playing hoses into flame-licked buildings. A. F. S. plans, when Londoners are through looking at their smokeater art, to send it to Manhattan, where Mayor LaGuardia, an old fire buff, has arranged to have it exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York.