It's easy to think of fire as a problem you can solve just by having watched kids tv, but remember we live lit by electricity, surrounded by stone, concrete and metal these days... our world is a hell of a lot less flammable than a world made from timber and straw and lit by oil lanterns. Fire used to fuck communities UP.

Those lamps would've contained a decent amount of oil to keep them burning brightly for a few hours - mix that with a semi-permanent structure made from dry timber, a floor made from dry straw and not even a bottle of Evian handy to damp it down and yeah, everyone inside that bitch that wasn't Dany was going to die.