A teenager was arrested for arson after Fire in an abandoned hotel by the sea.

On the evening of August 8, firefighters were called to a fire on the third floor of the Ocean Hotel in Sandown on the Isle of Wight.

When emergency responders arrived, no one was in the building and no injuries were reported.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police said an 18-year-old man arrested after the fire had been bailed until November 18.

It was the second fire in the hotel within a week, after the fire department had already extinguished flames at this location on August 5.

The hotel’s owners had previously received cleanup orders from the city and the police.

In May 2021 A major fire on all four floors of the building destroyed parts of the abandoned hotel.

Recently there have been several fires in abandoned hotels on the Isle of Wight.

In June two fires in one week A fight broke out at the Cygnet Hotel in Sandown.

In July 2022And in February This year the former Parkbury Hotel was damaged by fire.

The former Grand Hotel was hit by a fire in January 2022, and the Royal Cliff Hotel was destroyed in a suspected arson attack in 2014.