31-Jul-2017
A music festival “United in Tomorrowland” hosted in Barcelona, Spain on 29th July had nearly 22000 attendees when the stage set ablaze. The place was evicted soon the fire entrapped the whole stage into a fireball. The emergency evacuation had saved lives of all the attendees, and fortunately, no fatalities recorded. Firefighters of the Generalitat have explained that they have activated 11 endowments to douse the fire of the festival. They also added that it took about 1 and half hour to control the whole situation, and the reason for the fire broke out was accounted due to a pyrotechnic show, which heated up some focus on the left side of the stage. This incident has raised one more time the health and safety issue for attendees during events.
Video Courtesy: Marc Aloy
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