Meanwhile, Sawyer and his RNLI colleagues were approaching Birling Gap from the east, in their lifeboat Diamond Jubilee. “As we went towards the west we could see this haze, and all of a sudden our eyes started to burn and you could feel the back of your throat burning. “It started slowly to come in, then you lost sight of the cliffs.”We could see this haze, and our eyes started to burn. “So I make some calls and I learn a ‘poisonous gas cloud’ has materialised at Birling Gap,” he says. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Laura Knight and her family were at Birling Gap when the poisonous cloud swept over the bay.

Source: The Guardian April 14, 2018 07:52 UTC