While the Great Fire of London burned most of the city, 436 acres, (J.Clark) those are still rookie numbers compaired to California"s August Complex fire, 471,185 acres, the largest in state history (Fedschun). But seriously, it would have been devastating to see everything that you have known and worked for in your life go up in flames. I could image that the people of London would want to make their culture more permanent after watching it all disappear in flames. This goes along with the fact that they rebuilt the city mostly the same with only a few minor changes. They wanted to keep their culuture and make it longer lasting, so they took the opportunity to make buildings permanant by using materials like brick and stone. I could imagine that the fire does stick in the minds of modern day Londoners because tramatic or important events tend to become apart of culture themselves. An American example of this being Pearl Habor and 9-11, these tramatic events where made into a hollidays so we remember them.
Fedschun, Travis. (2020). "August Complex fire in California becomes largest in state history as deadly wildfires scorch West". Fox News.
J. Clark, London: The Illustrated History