 However, this story proved unsatisfactory, and his confession changed upon learning that the fire never reached Westminster.Having learned that the fire started in Pudding Lane, in the house of the baker Thomas Farriner (or Farynor), he then claimed to have thrown a crude fire grenade through the open window of the Farriner bakery.He claimed to have acted with accomplices, who stopped the water cocks to sabotage the effort to put out the fire.