🔥 The Great Fire of London 🔥 How did it Start? — Transcript

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1. 0:00The Great Fire of London. How did it
2. 0:03start?
3. 0:05The Great Fire of London started on the
4. 0:08morning of Sunday, the 2nd of September,
5. 0:111666,
6. 0:13in a baker's shop on Pudding Lane. The
7. 0:15baker was called Thomas Farriner. A fire
8. 0:19for baking had not been put out.
9. 0:22The fire spread through the bakery and
10. 0:25soon towards other buildings. The Great
11. 0:28Fire had begun.
12. 0:30The fire spread easily because many of
13. 0:32the buildings in London were made out of
14. 0:35wood. The wood was also very dry because
15. 0:39the weather had been hot and dry.
16. 0:42The buildings were very close together
17. 0:45and it was windy, which also helped the
18. 0:47fire to spread.
19. 0:49In 1666,
20. 0:51London had no fire brigade. Fire posts
21. 0:54were set up and people all joined in to
22. 0:57try and stop the fire.
23. 0:59Buildings were pulled down and water was
24. 1:02thrown using leather buckets and water
25. 1:05squirts.
26. 1:06This did not stop the fire and so it
27. 1:09continued to spread.
28. 1:11This type of fire engine was used in
29. 1:13London in 1666.
30. 1:17It was pushed to where it needed and
31. 1:19people used buckets of water to fill it
32. 1:22up.
33. 1:23Water squirted out of the spout in the
34. 1:25middle when the handles were pumped.
35. 1:28Four people were needed to make it work
36. 1:30and it was hard and tiring.
37. 1:33Many buildings were being destroyed by
38. 1:35the fire or pulled down with hooks to
39. 1:37try and stop the fire from spreading.
40. 1:40People had to carry their belongings to
41. 1:42safety using boats on the River Thames.
42. 1:47St. Paul's Cathedral was destroyed in
43. 1:50the fire. Although it was mostly made of
44. 1:52stone, the tower had wooden scaffolding
45. 1:55around it, which meant that the fire
46. 1:57spread more quickly. The heat of the
47. 2:00fire melted the cathedral's lead roof
48. 2:02and caused the stone to break apart.
49. 2:06Because the wind had died down and many
50. 2:09houses were pulled down to stop the fire
51. 2:11spreading, the fire stopped.
52. 2:14It is recorded that six people died, but
53. 2:18thousands of people were left homeless,
54. 2:20lost their business, or lost many of
55. 2:23their possessions.
56. 2:25Can you remember the reason why the fire
57. 2:28spread so quickly?
58. 2:33Yes, because the houses were made of
59. 2:35wood and had straw roofs. The houses
60. 2:38were very close together.
61. 2:41It was also very windy.
62. 2:43And there were no fire brigades.
63. 2:46Don't forget to check out the next video
64. 2:48to find out what happened after the
65. 2:51Great Fire of London.