VIDEO: Guests flee from hotel-room as fire engulfed Victorian building in Eastbourne

Scores of firefighters are today desperately trying to stop a massive blaze which is tearing through a hotel in one of Britain's oldest resort towns.



Firefighters are pumping seawater to stop the spread of the inferno ripping through the Claremont Hotel in Eastbourne, East Sussex as well as neighbouring buildings.



Terrified guests were evacuated safely from the seafront hotel when the fire broke out just before 9am this morning in the basement.



At least 60 firefighters and a dozen fire engines are at the scene as the inferno continues to out thick smoke, leading to a warning to residents to keep their windows closed.









The blaze comes five years after the 140-year-old Eastbourne Pier was ravaged by a fire which was started 'deliberately'.





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