A POPULAR Bradford City fan, who escaped the Valley Parade Fire Disaster, sadly passed away earlier today with a brain tumour. Paul Firth wrote about his harrowing experience on that fateful May day in 1985 in his 2005 book, Four Minutes To Hell: The Story Of The Bradford City Fire. He suffered from smoke inhalation, while father-in-law Arnold Whitehead broke a rib and endured burns to his scalp, which required a skin graft. Mr Firth, a former stipendary magistrate and district judge who retired in 2005, estimated that sales of his book have raised thousands for the Bradford Burns Unit. In 2009, he contributed just short of another £1,000 to the unit by completing the City of Salford 10k race in under 60 minutes.