In the year 1666 on the 2nd of September there was a fire in London. King Charles II was the king at that time. There were two things that the people were scared of at that time; a disease called the bubonic plague that killed 60,000 people and that a great fire might hit London.

The fire started in a bakery at 2 o’clock in the morning in Pudding Lane. The fire spread quickly because the houses were close together, the streets were short and the houses were made out of wood.

The fire died because the royal workers pulled down some houses and they exploded other houses. The fire also hit some brick walls which it could not get past.

The fire burned down lots of houses and killed four people. The fire may also have stopped the plague from spreading because it killed lots of rats.