The Great Fire of London began at a bakery in Pudding Lane on September 2nd, 1666. A few hundred houses caught flame in the vicinity and then the wind took the fire east, burning everything in its path. The first thing Londoners did was try pouring buckets of water on the burning buildings. This didn’t work so the next thing they attempted was escape, a crush of humanity piling up along the Thames waiting for boats to get them clear of the inferno.
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