Thousands of campers arrived at Belgium yesterday, a day later a fire destroyed the main stage of the festival.
Festival organizers have insisted that the event in the city of boom to the south of Antwerp will continue without stage, saying that they are “focusing on finding solutions”.
No one was injured on Wednesday evening and experts are working to determine a reason.
The Electronic Dance Music Festival is scheduled to begin on Friday, with 400,000 people expect to participate in two weekends.
Hundreds of artists, including David Gueta, Lost Frequency, Swedish House Mafia and Charlotte de Vitte, are expected to perform.
The local fire service has declared the site safe and will now be decided whether the structure has to be demolished before the festival starts on Friday.
The campsite known as Dreamville has been opened and so far the organizers say that this weekend program will continue.
Bradley Cooper-Barnard took out from London with three other friends.
“This is my fourth tomorrow and things definitely feel a little different,” he told the BBC.
He said, “Dreamville is feeling very subdued, one feels a lot around. In all my last years, people are partying by this time of the day and usually there is music everywhere – it is quite calm, but there is a good amount of people around,” he said.
“We have installed our tents and we are going to have a great time.”
Bradley Cooper-BarnardIn his latest post on Instagram on Thursday, Kalland said: “It is impossible to keep what we are feeling.”
It states that the Orbies Main Stage was “not just a platform … it was living in the breathing world”.
The organizers said that they had worked through the night to come with the solution. A meeting was held on Thursday morning with security experts and local government members to discuss a casual plan.
In the north of the boom, the mayor of the Rumest told the local media that another meeting discussing more ideas for the option of the main forum would be held in the afternoon.
Jargon Calerts said, “The last cancel the festival is the last thing we want to do.”
There are 14 other stages in the festival, all are much smaller than the main platform.
Further details are expected to be released later on Thursday.
Getty imagesThe fire began on Wednesday at 18:00 local time (16:00 GMT). The video posted on social media shown thick gray smoke surrounding the stage.
Some residents were evacuated as the firefighters worked to prevent flames from reaching neighboring houses and Woodland.
A police helicopter carrying water to help extinguish the fire was also deployed.
An employee who was working on the site described the “apocalypse scene”, as the fire was caught.
“We suddenly heard the bangs and caught fire near the stage, a large amount of fire broke out,” anonymous person told Hate Neuvavad newspaper.
“We were just putting a finishing touch on it. Another day and it will be finished. Four weeks work … gone in half an hour.”
Started in 2005 yesterday and has become the world’s largest electronic dance festival, which attracts music fans from every continent.
