Ringmer Fireworks Explosion from Buxted

This video, from a BBC viewer, is of the massive explosion at a fireworks depot in Shortgate, near Ringmer/Lewes/Uckfield/Halland in East Sussex, on the B2192 "The Broyle". Two firefighters were killed and the area remains sealed off today (6/12) following the explosion on 3/12.

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News & Politics

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• festival
• fireworks
• explosion
• lewes
• ringmer
• uckfield
• halland
• broyle
• sussex
• firefighters

[funkybros]

mi m8 was outside doin pe at ringmer community college the taecher said get inside quick amd they had a emergency assembly man all the gd stuff happened when i werent there

[whereinsussex]

Er, sorry, it happened on a Sunday!

[petebroady]

my uncles died in that :(

[petebroady]

my uncles died in that :(

[tomscrewup]

i was 1/4 of a mile away and it broke my car window! i live in ringmer :)

[joshzoo]

ahahahah, the wok in!

do your ears still work?

[Munstalanda]

ok all u people seem 2 know ringmer well. i was at the wok inn.... i pegged it...

[jbeast165]

NICK COOK IS A NIGGER

[themutantchicken]

i live 3 miles away from that place and i still felt the floor shake from the explosion

[dfcvda]

i was in Ringmer on that afternoon, when we saw the fire water tanker lorry go by we realised it was something big

[becks4e]

funkybros thats so not true because we werent at school on that day!

[mitchelswoodgurl]

i was on holiday my sister ( 16 at the time) was on her own