Commemorating the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London – Newscasts Televisa

MEXICO CITY, Mexico, sep. 5, 2016.- The authorities of the British capital began artistic and cultural events to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, one of the most important British historical moments.

London 350 years ago was destroyed by a great fire started by a merchant, known to be the official baker of king Charles II for five years, his name was John Farynor.

the morning of September 2, 1666, Farynor went to your bedroom located on the top floor of the bakery without realizing that one of the furnaces remained on and according to historians at 2 in the morning began the disaster.

Pudding Lane, as it was known at that London area, was a deposit of waste from a nearby market and place not inhabited distinguished despite its proximity to London Bridge people.

the chroniclers report that the mayor decided not to wake the king inform, near dawn realized that did not give due importance to the event that at the time was out of control. By noon on Sunday the flames reached the River Thames, large wineries wood, oil, cognac, coal and other products broke out and the wind fanned the flames uncontrollably.

Firefighters in their eagerness to get enough water to douse the seat of the fire cut off the supply ducts preventing the liquid from reaching the places where the flames spread.

Thirteen thousand houses, churches and shops of London Bridge were soon destroyed . The flames reached the opposite side of the Thames and the financial centers of Southwark, the Guildhall and the Royal Exchange, were in ashes. Even in the Cathedral of St. Paul, where the heat blew the stones; ancient tombs burst, leaving uncovered the mummified remains, the roof melted and the molten metal ran through the streets adjacent exacerbating the disaster.

Thousands of people escaped the flames and was until Wednesday night following the fire was controlled, after the orders of the king the buildings around the fire to contain it collapsed, but London kept smoldering for weeks.

firefighters consisted even months after basements kept Miraculously they live
fire and although 80% of the city lay in ruins, only 16 people died in the disaster, 100,000 were left homeless, and economic losses were unquantifiable.

KAH