Restoration the rebuilding of Windsor castle

First the Brunswick and then the Prince of Wales Tower... erupted like giant bunsen burners into the night. Both towers became Roman candles in which every window was a panel of flame and above which the fire roared half as high as the towers again into the night sky ...

It was a horrifying Vesuvian spectacle. But for the firefighters, the eruption through the northeastern towers was the signal to begin their move into the fire-ground. Cautiously at first, they began to push the fire before them, driving it north-eastward through the wreck of the building, with a moving curtain of water and water vapour.