Tide used to tackle coast fire

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The hotel, near Glenarm in County Antrim, is now derelict

Firefighters using sea water to tackle a fire at a hotel on the County Antrim coast have had to move their pumps because the tide has gone out.

Crews have been at the derelict Drumnagreagh Hotel near Glenarm since the early hours of Friday morning.

William Caverner of the Fire Service said it was "very rare" for officers to have to use water from the sea.

"This was because of the hotel's remoteness and pressure problems," he said.

"There's not really many other buildings in that area so the water services couldn't increase the pressure.

"The easiest and quickest option for us was to get the high volume pumps to work."

More than 50 firefighters, from as far away as Belfast and Coleraine, have been tackling the blaze.

The building has been extensively damaged.