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- Belgium's Tomorrowland music festival opens after main stage was destroyed by fire</p>
<p>AHMAD SEIR July 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM</p>
<p>1 / 4Belgium Festival FirePeople listen to DJs Odymel and Pegassi performing at the Tomorrowland music festival in Boom, Belgium, Friday, July 18, 2025, two days after a huge fire on Wednesday severely damaged the main stage, rear. (AP Photo/Omar Havana)</p>
<p>BOOM, Belgium (AP) — Fans roared in excitement and organizers sighed with relief as the Tomorrowland music festival kicked off Friday — two days after a massive fire engulfed the main stage and threw one of Europe's biggest summer concert events into doubt.</p>
<p>Workers labored around the clock to clear out the debris from the elaborate backdrop that was consumed in Wednesday's fire.</p>
<p>The festival's opening performers, DJs Odymel and Pegassi, took to the main stage Friday after a last-minute scramble and slight delay, with charred set frames still visible behind them.</p>
<p>Australian electronic music group Nervo came next, opening their set by shouting: ''We made it!''</p>
<p>No one was hurt in the fire, organizers said. The cause is being investigated.</p>
<p>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, Tomorrowland spokesperson Debby Wilmsen said.</p>
<p>''Maybe there are some few people that say, 'OK, we would like to have a refund,' but it's only like a very small percentage because most of them are still coming to the festival," she told The . "It is all about unity, and I think with a good vibe and a positive energy that our festival-goers give to each other and the music we offer, I think they will still have a good time. 'We really tried our best.″</p>
<p>Australian fans Zak Hiscock and Brooke Antoniou — who traveled half the world to see the famed festival as part of a summer holiday in Europe — described hearing about the fire.</p>
<p>"We were sitting having dinner when we actually heard the news of the stage burning down. We were very devastated and shattered, quite upset because we travelled a long way,'' Hiscock said.</p>
<p>Ukrainian visitor Oleksandr Beshkynskyi was pleased that the festival could go ahead as planned.</p>
<p>''It's not just about the one DJ or two DJs you're looking to see, but about all the mood and about the dream being alive," Beshkynskyi said. ___</p>
<p>Angela Charlton in Paris contributed. ___ This story has been corrected to show that the festival's opening performers were Odymel and Pegassi.</p>
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