The fire started in Pudding Lane, and one of the royal bakers, Thomas Farriner, who owned a bakery shop there, his maid had forgotten to put out the oven during the night, so the tremendous heat created by the oven caused sparks ignited to the wooden house of his. Once the fire started, it spreads wildly and quickly as London was basically make up of wood to be honest. Also, if the houses nearby were demolished quickly, the fire wouldn't have spread so quickly.
London was overcrowded with timber-framed building structures, so London was basically a still time-bomb waiting for a right time to explode and create a human apocalypse and a humanitarian crisis.
After the disaster, King Charles II decided to redesign the whole city and appointed commissioners to create wider pavements and roads in streets and creation of buildings made up of brick, rather than timber, as it won't catch fire too easily. The Fire was a complete disaster, and luckily, there weren't too much deaths, except for the maid who forget to close the oven- poor her.
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