Great Fire of London
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Methods of the London Fire Brigade in the 1660s
We don't have a proper fire brigade in London in the 1660s. Were their methods at all effective? Fire is fire. We know how to combat fire and we know if it's too big for the things that we have, we'll not combat the fire. So they had these fire engines, they had a handful of them at key places around London. They also had fire hooks, which were basically just hooks that we use for pulling down buildings,. water squirts as well. And I was really struck by what you just said about the Lord Mayor Thomas Bloodworth saying he's tired and then disappearing. It seems like he's kind of paralyzed. Do we see people getting involved
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