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- it was September when the fire started and there had been a drought due to the very hot summer
- Most houses were made from wood that was very dry - like tinder that is amazingly flammable
- The houses were close together so the fire spread quickly through each one
- There was no fire brigade
- The wind was blowing towards the most densely populated part of London so the fire wiped out that part quickly
- Houses did not have running water. Water came from pumps in the streets. The water pump near where the fire started was out of order.
13,200 houses were destroyed in the Great Fire of London between 2-5 Sep. 1666.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 11y agobecause the fire is huge
Not because it was huge.....but because it destroyed all but a few bits of London, remember the houses and buildings were made of wood, so the fire spread quickly, so therefore great in this sense means important not huge
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∙ 12y agoBecause it wasn't an ordinary fire. It destroyed most of London in 1066.
1066 was The Battle of Hastings. The Great Fire of London was in 1666.
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∙ 12y agobecause the houses were so tightly packed together, that they couldn't be knocked down.- it would be too difficult.
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∙ 12y agoIt was a blessing in disguise because it put an end to the Bubonic Plague epidemic which had killed thousands of Londoners. There are no recorded instances of anyone being killed in the fire.
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Why was it difficult to put out the great fire of London ones it had started?
because with the wooden houses around it just kept building more and more
What did the people do when they knew that there was great fire of London?
They tried to put it out or to escape from the flames.
How many people put out the Great Fire of London?
Over 20--Jessica Southwood From Balfour!
What is the best book on the Great Smog in 1950s in London?
Interesting and very difficult to put into x amount of letters.
How was the oven heated in the great fire of London?
The baker went to bed and forgot that he had put something in the oven to bake
How did the great fire of London put a stop to the plague?
It killed the rats and fleas that carried the plague and gave it to people.
What good things did 'Charles II' do?
He helped put out the great fire of London
Why was it difficult to put out the great fire of London once it had started?
The Great Fire of London was one of this cities' most disrupting dillemas. It was indeed very hard to put out the humungous fire; spreading across almost all of the city although it was done. But how? Fire engines were not yet invented at the time so there were alternatives including buckets/barrows and carts which would carry not huge quantities of water but would help to drown out the oxygen in the flames. Other ideas were thought of as well as this; A famous man called Samuel Pepys thought it would be more efficient to pull down the houses with long and powerful ropes as this would leave nowhere for the fire to lead to!
What put out the Great Chicago Fire?
The Tuesday morning rain put out the Chicago fire.
When did thr great fire of London take place?
The fire started in Pudding lane at the house of Thomjas Farynbor who was the King's baker. In the case of the London fire, it stopped when it reached the stone walls surrounding the city and with nothing left to burn it died out. The Great Plague of London, which occurred in 1665 - 1666, was another outbreak of the bubonic plague that took the lives of about 20% of the population of London. Historians now link the London fire as a remedy for the plague. It worked very effective since the few of the rats that survived had the hair burned and the fleas dead.
In the great fire How did they to put the fire out?
The fire was defeated because the strong east winds died down and also, gunpowder was used to create fire breaks. they also pulled down buildings to create a wall to halt the flames spreading eastwards.
Where did the great fire of London in 1666 begin?
in 1666 in the bakery at pudding lane because Thomas Farronor did not put his fire out it spread for 4 days and 5 people died and the bakers maid was the first person to die because she was too scared to climb on the roof and jump.
