According to official records how many people died in the Great Fire of London of 1666?
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Ed the Jetpacking Headbanger
ANSWERS: 3
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I believe it was 3 as a result of the fire itself plus 2 drunks who fell in the river
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I believe six people died and who knows how many were saved when it brought to an end the plague.
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The death toll was low. Official records cite only five deaths - the Farrier's maid, a shoemaker, an old man who died trying to get a blanket from St. Paul's Cathedral and two people who fell into cellars – but figures eight and seventeen are often given. The true number might have been more, but nowhere near the three thousand supposedly killed by a fire in the thirteenth century.
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