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The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through central London from Sunday 2 September to Thursday 6 September 1666, [b] gutting the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall, while also extending past the wall to the west.
On 14 June 2017, a high-rise fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London, England, at 00:54 BST and burned for 60 hours. . Seventy people died at the scene and two people died later in hospital, with more than 70 injured and 223 esca
A major fire occurred in London in 1087, at the beginning of the reign of William Rufus. It consumed much of the Norman city . St Paul's Cathedral was the most significant building to be destroyed in this blaze, which also damaged the Palatine tower built by William the Conqueror on the banks of the River Fleet so badly that the remains had to ...
LONDON — Seven years after a fire in a London high-rise building killed 72 people, an exhaustive public inquiry is set to report on the lapses and mistakes that turned a small fire in an ...
Wall of tributes to the fire victims in the nearby Bramley Road Volunteers sorting public donations for the fire victims Memorial wall near Kensington Leisure Centre in May 2018. People in the immediate area and from across London rallied to assist victims of the fire. [15] Donations of food, water, toys, and clothes were made. [16]
A fatal fire at a housing block in 2009 should have alerted the London Fire Brigade (LFB) to the “shortcomings” in its ability to fight blazes in high-rise buildings, the final report of the ...
Report of an inquiry into health and safety aspects of stoppages caused by fire and bomb alerts on London Underground, British Rail and other mass transit systems. HSE Books. ISBN 0-11-886394-0. Chambers, P. (2006). Body 115: The Story of the Last Victim of the King's Cross Fire. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-470-01808-9. Moodie, K. (1992).
A terraced house in east London dramatically exploded and sparked a major blaze, with 60 firefighters called to the scene.. Shocking footage filmed from a double-decker bus shows the house blowing ...