3.3 St. Paul's Cathedral and the Great Fire Response

"13,200 houses, eighty-seven churches, St. Paul's Cathedral, the Guildhall and fifty-two livery company halls had been destroyed" (Ross and Clark 112), all in the span of four days. Imagine watching your home, your city, everything that is familiar to you, burn to the ground. Imagine watching all of it crumble as you watch helplessly, frantically. Imagine the chaos. Imagine the fear. Imagine the destitute. Everything is gone. Imagine having a roof over your head one day, and roaming the streets the next.