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In the heart of London, a small bakery business on Pudding Lane became the source of a historic inferno in 1666. An unattended oven sparked a blaze that consumed the timber-framed city, a terrifying spectacle that destroyed over 13,000 homes and vast amounts of commercial property, leaving the local economy in ruins. Yet, from the ashes of this disaster came a startling discovery. The very flames that consumed London also purged it of the Great Plague, a shadow that had long haunted its citizens