[News] Royal Albion hotel on fire, again.

[Gabbafella]

I haven't popped out to see but reports are it's going up pretty well.
My flat absolutely reeks of smoke and I'm well over a mile away.

LIVE: Fire at Royal Albion Hotel enters second day

All the latest from the fire at the Royal Albion hotel, Brighton

www.theargus.co.uk

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Buses are carnage at the moment so don’t go into town if you don’t have to. Stay close to home tonight , support your local boozer

 

[Weststander]

Driving to work in 1998 I witnessed the hotel alight, on that occasion a kitchen flue vent had caught alight starting the fire.

These winds must literally be fanning the flames, hard to see how the fire service can save it.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Firefighters took ages to start putting hoses on it for some reason

 

[driddles]

Apparently the top 2 floors on fire now, was a live tiktok feed but it cut out

 

[junior]

 

[Jimmy Come Lately]

I was going to call this thread "Albion on fire". But I suppose it's a serious matter.

 

[birthofanorange]

I'm surprised that this isn't receiving more comments, tbh. It's not going well, apparently, and is a pretty major part of the city,

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Can smell the smoke and I'm up lewes road by sainsbury's

 

[Easy 10]

Had our wedding reception there

Lovely old place, and a great bar for people-watching out the windows.

 

[Official Old Man]

Watching a video as the roof falls in and only one hosepipe on the building from a single extension ladder on a fire truck. Surely we have more than the one extension ladder.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Seemed to start on floor below. Took a long time for the water to start flowing..

 

[pocketseagull]

I was passing just as the fire took hold and fire engines arriving. The smoke was incredibly thick and really billowing out. St James Street was a nightmare, Morrisons have shut up shop. Absolutely stink of smoke now

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Hope everyone is okay.

A little inland, I live near the Level, you wouldn’t know anything was happening, bar the sirens earlier.

 

[Farehamseagull]

Shit, I love that building. Hope it can be rescued.

Also had the worst experience I’ve ever had in a hotel there one night. Baking hot night in the middle of summer about 2012 I think and their air con was down. It was ridiculously hot, we couldn’t sleep all night, no air at all. Inappropriate to say now but it was like a furnace in there, wierdly hot, never experienced anything like it any country. We had to have cold baths to try and cool down in the middle of the night. They were very good about it though and let everyone have a free stay.

 

[jessiejames]

Not looking good, drove down lower Bedford st, and you could see tge flames comming through the roof.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Stayed there once for one night. That was enough.

 

[taz]

10.30pm still flames visible

 

[Live by the sea]

I was passing just as the fire took hold and fire engines arriving. The smoke was incredibly thick and really billowing out. St James Street was a nightmare, Morrisons have shut up shop. Absolutely stink of smoke now

It will probably clear st James street of all the drunks . Seriously fire is never a good thing . Hope everyone ok

 

[Si Gull]

Popguns and Jim Bob's Chalk gig next door was cancelled.