Reporter Mark Y
It was a lovely Saturday morning in 1969. Peaceful and quiet but somehow unusual. It was around eleven o’clock and Linda Baker a mechanic from east London was working. She was on her lunchbreak but by mistake she left the car boot up. Smithy, a fellow mechanic, lit a cigarette and the car’s engine exploded right in his face!
This sent him flying head on against a wall. The fire spread and turned into an inferno. The wind was blowing it all over London engulfing London in flames and smoke. Citizens of London were signaled to stay inside their homes and close everything.
Firefighters got the blaze under control it took twelve fire engines, ninety nine firemen and fifty hoses to put the fire out. Eighty eight people died and thousands were injured.
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