Did The Great Fire of London Inspire The Fire Rated Door?

15^th September 2016

Over 350 years ago this September The Great Fire Of London occurred causing significant loss of life and damage to the city and its buildings. If the same event occurred today the fire would be resisted by many fire suppression and fire resistant technologies. One such technology is provided by Euroglaze in the form of a range of Fire Resistant Doors. A fire door is a door with a fire-resistance rating (sometimes referred to as a fire protection rating for closures) used as part of a passive fire protection system to reduce the spread of fire and smoke between separate compartments of a structure and to enable safe egress from a building.

The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666. The fire gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall. It threatened but did not reach the aristocratic district of Westminster, Charles II's Palace of Whitehall, and most of the suburban slums. It consumed 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, St Paul's Cathedral, and most of the buildings of the City authorities. It is estimated to have destroyed the homes of 70,000 of the City's 80,000 inhabitants.

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