A Speech on the Great Fire of London

In fact, Samuel Pepys, one of the writers who documented this event described this fire as a “most malicious bloody flame, as one entire arch of fire of above a mile long… the churches, houses and all on fire and flaming at once, and a horrid noise the flames made” (Pepys, 217). Those days, a fire could get out of control very easily because of the houses were made of wood and situated very close together. People cooked on open fires and their sources of light during the night were candles. Unfortunately, there were no fire engines or firemen to contain fires whenever it broke out. In accordance with Andrews (193), this fire is said to have started on 2nd of September on early Sunday morning in Pudding Lane in Thomas Farrinor’s bakery shop.