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The following excerpt is from:

http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/fire/story.html

The fire was checked in the east by gunpowder explosions, which created large firebreaks and saved the Tower of London. But in the west, the fire leapt the river Fleet and now threatened to spread to Whitehall and the royal palaces. At last, on Wednesday morning, the wind dropped and the fire lost intensity and broke up. It became possible to douse the flames, but people battled for another 36 hours before the last of the fires were finally extinguished on Thursday night.

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