alight
If something is alight, it is burning.
The fire was safely alight.
A candle was alight on the chest of drawers.
To set something alight means to cause it to start burning.
...paraffin that had been poured on the ground and set alight.
Be careful
You do not use alight in front of a noun. You do not say, for example, ‘People rushed out of the alight building’. You say ‘People rushed out of the burning building’.
You do not use alight in front of a noun. You do not say, for example, ‘People rushed out of the alight building’. You say ‘People rushed out of the burning building’.