The Massive Impact of The Great London Fire The London Fire happened in September 2, 1666 in London, England. It started in Pudding lane near the London Bridge at King Charles II’s baker’s House. The main person Sir Thomas Bloodworth said about the fire, “ a Woman could piss it out”(Cavendish). What started out as a small fire, became a huge monstrosity. The London Fire is comparable to today’s 9/11 due to how much damage happened and how catastrophic it was. All these London problems caused multiple deaths to others. The fire took out over 13,000 houses, and only 16 people died (History.com Staff). The temperature of the fire raised up to 1700 degrees. The fire was alive till September 6, and many people called it the worst fire ever in …show more content…
The after effect of it all is that they decided to put new buildings in and save London from looking like a travesty. They blamed the disaster on the “treachery and malice of the popish faction” (History.com Staff). Thomas Farrinor, King Charles II”s baker, blamed guilty of causing the fire and apologized to the lord mayor for spreading fire through the city. They were able to save some of the things that got destroyed during the London fire and helped all the homeless landowners find a home. The houses back then were made out of wood and the only way they could take out the fires in the houses was by using buckets of water. They would form a line to get the water in the buckets to take the fire out as one person fills the bucket up and others would splash it on the houses. The Great London Fire of 1666 was a devastating fire that ruined almost all of London, England, and ruined almost everyone 's lives. It started as a bad fire, to becoming better with the new buildings with London. The destruction was a bad thing to happen to London and was the biggest destruction to London ever
T oday, October 8th 2016 is the 145th anniversary of The Great Chicago Fire. The Great Chicago Fire was a massive fire that lit 4 square miles of the city. A major factor in the Great Chicago Fire was the wood. Almost the entire city was built of wood, and wood is very flammable.
The Most important events happened in London, England and Paris, France (1775-1790). A major event that happened in London, England was the bad court system that they had. It shows how bad the court system is by how they charged Charles Darnay with treason. Treason is when you betray your own country and/or when you try to kill someone from that country. The public assumed that he’s felonious of betraying the country so Darnay goes on trial to show that he’s not guilty.
A total of three thousand people died that morning. The worse thing is that four hundred of them were policemen and firemen they were trying to save other people but they died in the action. They all died from the collapse or being stuck in the rubble for too long. ("11 Facts About 9/11.") This disaster caused lots and lots of lives from innocent people.
The fire was at it’s worst on the ninth floor, because that’s where most of the flammable fabrics were. Once the fire got on the fabrics, it spread everywhere, and there was almost no way those girls could’ve stopped it. Also, during the middle of the fire, one of the workers tried to use the hose to put the fire out, and the worst possible outcome that could’ve happened,.....happened. There was no water that came out of the hose!
In 1911, a tragedy happened in the great state of New York. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire put a huge hole in many citizens hearts as lives were lost and injuries were severe and some untreatable back in the days. With one hundred and six lives that were lost and seventy-one people injured, this event was the most deadliest in the New York city until the terrorist attack ninety years later and still remains one of the deadliest in the United States. It affected America socially, politically and economically by owners being unfair, women not being treated equally and victims not getting the care they needed or deserved.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire The Fire And Its Causes The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was one of New Yorks deadliest work place fires. It happened on March 25th, 1911 and would end up destroying the upper three floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Many people would die from being burned alive or jumping out of the building trying to escape the fire thinking they could maybe survive the fall. This fire would take many lives approximately one hundred and forty six people. Out of the one hundred and forty six people, one hundred and twenty six people were young women who worked at the factory.
In today’s society, building regulations have made the buildings themselves better equipped for the possibility of a fire. Jonathan Fowler, a level three local firefighter volunteer in Cave City, Arkansas for the past nine years, said the fire of 1911 burned the whole building in a total of eighteen minutes. As a result, each room in a standard government building can help contain a fire for fifteen minutes and keep the flames from spreading further and causing even more destruction. Another example of a positive result from the fire is within two years of the tragedy, more than thirty laws had been passed to help prevent anything tragic that can be averted from happening again (Wignot). Another result of the fire was it made Americans realize that those women who burned were technically citizens of the United States of America, but because they were immigrants, they were discriminated against and not treated fairly (Cornell).
They should also be aware because they’d had fires there before but not as bad as that one they were not ready neither were the firemen. They also looked like of the city was very poor and they had to try and put out the fire with buckets, and they
The city also didn’t have fire alarms in almost every building, just the ones that could afford it. Even some schools didn’t have a fire alarm. The fire could have been able to be prevented by using other materials. Some buildings that weren't made out of wood, still caught fire.
Firstly, there were no sewers and all waste was dumped either on the streets or in the rivers. To make matters even worse, London had lots of ports which allowed rats with infected fleas the ability to get into London. Because of all the factors that made London so unsanitary, the Black Plague spread very quickly. Within weeks of the first victim in London getting infected, it was dangerous to even stand outside. The only people outside were plague physicians.
Although this fire has had a huge influence on progression, by this time it was too late. The horrors from the event have since been a piece of American history. Preparing for the worst is the only way to ensure safety. If you do what needs to be done to prevent catastrophes from occurring there will be no need for reform. Constantly upgrading current protocols and enhancing current technology helps keep the public safe.
In one of the articles he wrote “In the first Place, as an Ounce of Prevention is worth a Pound of Cure, I would advise ‘em to take care how they suffer living Brands-ends, or Coals in a full Shovel, to be carried out of one Room into another, or up or down Stairs, unless in a Warming pan shut; for Scraps of Fire may fall into Chinks, and make no Appearance till Midnight; when your Stairs being in Flames, you may be forced, (as I once was) to leap out of your Windows, and hazard your Necks to avoid being over-roasted” (Franklin B. 1735). This article along with several others led to the creation of the first fire department established in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Less than 100 years later in 1818, the same city of Philadelphia, a group of African Americans wanted to join the noble profession of firefighting naming the group the African Fire Association.
4.2) Engineering Restrictions and Anti-engineering Campaigns To keep pace with the growing demand of houses in the U.K, at least 250,000 houses should be built annually. However, bureaucratic engineering approvals, land restrictions, and stringent rules governing the design and construction of tall buildings including the Grenfell Tower, are drawbacks to the speedy construction of housing units (Scott p.1). After the inferno, the Friends of Richmond Park, and residents of the west London suburbs, actively campaigned against the construction of tall buildings. Although the restrictions and campaigns were meant to safeguard the safety of the occupants, they gradually contributed to the housing shortage currently
Another result of the fire was the creation of the American Society of Safety Engineers. Which was Designed for all buildings to fall under the code to make them safer? The American Society of Safety Engineers did just that, and there has not been any other building tragedy fire not caused by arson as severe as the shirtwaist fire. I will now like to return to the original question.