(18 Jul 2025)
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Boom, Belgium – 18 July 2025
1. Pan shot from destroyed Tomorrowland festival main stage to newly built stage
2. Lighting rig, workers on new stage in background
3. Pan of crowd, people entering after opening of new stage in distance
4. Various of people rushing into new stage
5. Wide of crowd and stage
6. Stage with DJ
7. Wide of crowd
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Erika Frescher, festivalgoer from Germany:
"I mean I was totally devastated. I saw the smoke live and I wouldn’t believe if people told me that this could happen actually, it is so devastating. But what they made in two days it is just unbelievable."
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Sterten, festivalgoer from Norway:
"It is my first time here, I am getting goosebumps just talking about it, it is just pure amazing, pure feelings. It is just enjoy the moment of Tomorrowland, enjoy the music."
10. Various of people walking around festival
STORYLINE:
Fans roared in excitement and organizers sighed with relief as the Tomorrowland music festival kicked off Friday in Belgium— just two days after a massive fire engulfed the main stage and threw one of Europe’s biggest summer concert events into doubt.
Workers labored around the clock to clear out the debris from the elaborate backdrop that was consumed in Wednesday’s fire.
The festival’s opening performers, Australian electronic music group Nervo, were able to take to the main stage Friday after a last-minute scramble and slight delay.
Some charred frames were still visible behind them.
"What they made in two days it is just unbelievable," German festivalgoer Erika Frescher told the AP.
No one was hurt in the fire, organizers said. The causes are being investigated.
Hundreds of thousands of people from around the world attend Tomorrowland’s annual multi-day festival outside the Belgian town of Boom.
Some 38,000 people were camping at the festival site Friday, a Tomorrowland spokesperson said.
AP video shot by Ahmad Seir Nassiri
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