<Li> The fire was an accident . Nero was in Antium . </Li> <Li> The fire was said to have been caused by the already unpopular Christians . This story was spread in order to blame someone else, because rumor had it that Nero started it . </Li> <P> Tacitus describes the fire as beginning in shops where flammable goods were stored, in the region of the Circus neighboring the Caelian and Palatine Hills of Rome . The night was a windy one and the flames rapidly spread along the full length of the Circus . The fire expanded through an area of narrow, twisting streets and closely located apartment blocks . In this lower area of ancient Rome there were no large buildings such as temples, or open areas of ground, to impede the conflagration . It then spread along the Palatine and Caelian slopes . </P> <P> The population fled first to areas unaffected by the fire and then to the open fields and rural roads outside the city . Looters and arsonists were reported to have spread the flames by throwing torches or, acting in groups, to have hindered measures being made to halt or slow the progress of the flames . Tacitus surmises that some may have acted under orders or that they may simply have wanted to plunder unhindered . </P>

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