Adrian Tinniswood

And it's not a big deal at this point.

It's not a big deal.

Certain things happened when the fire broke out.

Neighbors would evacuate their houses usually.

The parish wardens would be called.

You will get firefighting equipment.

Most of it kept in the local church.

And most effective firefighting equipment was actually long poles with hooks on the end for pulling down houses, in fact, to form firebreaks.

So everybody kind of milled around.

The point is, though, that as they're milling around in Pudding Lane, as they're trying to put the fire out, this gale is blowing, and it's blowing from the east.

It's blowing westward, and it's fanning the flames.

As it fans those flames, some of the thatch lifts.

Those embers fly into the sky, and they land in streets next door.

Famously, a glowing ember landed in the stable yard of an inn on Fish Street Hill and ignited the straw.

That was then blown up into the air and spread.

So the fire's spreading all the time.

The gale is relentless.

I mean, this gale will blow for three days.

And it's the gale which causes the fire of London now, I think.

He wasn't super concerned, was he?