After the Great Fire of 1666 the City of London banned straw thatched roofs. Almost all the houses lost in Los Angeles (FT ...

The Great Fire of London broke out on September 2, 1666, in Thomas Farriner's bakery on Pudding Lane. At the time, much of ...

Rat: How did The Great Fire of London start? (SINGS) Something’s burning, something’s burning. Fetch the ketchup, fetch the ketchup… BBQ! BBQ! It’s burnt and it’s crispy.Before ovens ...

An illustration of the Great Fire of London. The west side of St Paul's Cathedral is on fire and people are fleeing from the gates of London with their belongings. The stones of St Paul’s flew ...

THE tercentenary of the Great Fire of London (September 2–5, 1666) has given rise to discussion of the incidental meteorological factors. Atallah 1 compares the London fire with that at Hamburg ...

From ancient times to the present, urban fires have wrought havoc on cities, causing destruction and death on a massive scale ...

The famous fire ripped through London for three days in 1666 ... Swimming in praise, the great man hurries to the confluence. He will refuse entry to the magpies, Pampon and Durrance will confine ...

A building which is believed to be the only structure to have survived the Great Fire of London on the Strand has been damaged after a bus crashed into it. The Wig and Pen, which survived the 1666 ...

I could not help but reflect on how money works in times of disaster, whether that disaster is caused by the climate or ...

And remarkably, just like the Great Fire of London in 1666, there seem to have been few or even no casualties. Most sources suggest it tore through Builth on 27 December 1690, although some ...

American journalist Ernie Pyle watched the chaos unfold, and dubbed it the ‘Second Great Fire of London’. As the planes roared over London at around 6.15 pm on December 29, 1940, and dropped ...

As Los Angeles faces its latest fire crisis, it must look to the lessons of past urban fires that led to sweeping changes and ...