Fire: A Brief History

Table of Content

Introduction1

Discussion Analysis2

Fire exposures in London City2

Failures in Combating the Fire3

Development of the Fire4

Demolition5

Changes Occurred After the Incident of Fire6

The Aftermath of Fire8

The Parliamentary Investigation8

Fires in the 17th Century9

The legacy10

Conclusion11

References12

Fire: A Brief History

Introduction

People always have fear about fire explosions, as it is the quick oxidation substance in the exothermic chemical process of combustion. The great terror of fire seems in the streets of London on 1966. The explosion was so dominant that it shrunk the heart of local people in London. The gigantic explosion is greatly famous by the name of “The Great Fire of London”. The critical incident was a chief inferno that happened in the central parts of London city from Sunday morning to Wednesday. The fir event removed the medieval city inside the old Roman City Wall. It was near to reach the aristocratic district of Westminster, but luckily it did not go through the palace of Charles II and most of the slums area. The fire wrapped St. Paul's Cathedral, 87 parish churches, 13,200 houses and prominent buildings of City authorities (Robinson, 2011). The records declared that fire destroyed almost 70,000 houses of inhabitants, in which the death toll seems strange but assumed to have been smaller than other incidents. Another feature describes that it was only six deaths that verified by the government. This verification certainly flashes the grounds by reasoning of non recording middle class and gruesome deaths. Though, the issue was big, but the fire did not leave any dead body to be recognizable. The fire evidently led its positive impacts on London city that ultimately became the reason of benefitting London.

Discussion Analysis

The fire started taking place at the bakery of Thomas Farriner, which situated on Pudding Lane. It shortly shot up after the midnight of September and rapidly extended across the London city. The air fanned the flames of bakery into a firestorm that even could not be calmed down by fire brigades. The flames pushed to north on Monday and went into the centre of the city. The profound misunderstanding spread in the streets of London that foreigner enemies had set up the fire in the city (Robinson, 2011). This fear certainly raised the local people to victim the French and England's enemies, and also created the street violence. It had been noticed that the fire spread around the most of city parts on Tuesday, which destructed St. Paul's Cathedral and leapt to threaten Charles II's court at Whitehall. As previously discussed, it escaped from the harsh flames of fire. The incident was so terrible that the fire could have quenched by two means: the Tower of London (from where the defense force used gunpowder to generate effective firebreaks to stop further spread eastward) and the strong east winds died down. The economic and social problems shaped by the disaster were devastating. At the time of incident, Charles II greatly encouraged mass departure and resettlement somewhere else because homeless people were feared from revolutionary refugees (Pyne, ...