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https://youtu.be/JZJz0InuuGk

 

The Torygraph is saying 'The cause of the fire remains unclear, although it is believed that it could have been triggered by a firework display which was part of the show.

 

It quotes another source: "The fire brigade's initial hypothesis is that there was an overheating of the material used in the construction of the stage during the presentation of a pyrotechnic spectacle,"

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Lots of festivals have fire / fire sculpture elements to them (often looking completely out of control) so a significant chunk of the punters will have thought it was part of the festival and/or not been as unfamiliar with watching giant temporary sculptures burning.
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Anybody with real on-site information about what caused the fire?

And why the decorations weren't fire retardant?

 

Don't need any speculation, some based on incorrect images shown in the Mirror...

 

Very glad to see they had good emergency plans in place and all left the site uninjured!

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People never leave when they see a fire. They just watch it and now they film it too.

 

This. It's a phenomenon you can see clearly in footage of the Bradford City Stadium disaster back in 1985* - well before the advent of smartphones and Twitter, and in a setting with absolutely no expectation that the fire might be somehow 'part of the show'.

 

(* - Available on youtube I think - if you have the stomach to watch it. I've seen it before and don't need to see it again, so I'm not going to look for it now or post a link. The 'clicky' bit above is a link to the Wikipedia article about the fire.)

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Unite Barcelona, ​​organizers of Tomorrowland Barcelona , has attributed to a technical problem the fire at the scene of the event in Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona) that on Saturday forced to evict more than 22,000 people.

 

In a statement on Sunday, they explained that the authorities are carrying out an investigation with them to clarify the facts and say they do not know that any injuries have occurred, something that has already confirmed Civil Protection of the Generalitat.

 

Unite Barcelona celebrates the rapid evacuation of the concentrates in the park of Can Zam of the locality and asks that they are put in contact with them for any incidence that could have happened.

 

According to reports, the fire occurred when the podium stage was set and the event was canceled . Firemen (which google translate has down as "bombers"?!?) of the Generalitat inspects during the morning the remains of the stage next to technicians of the company that made the assembly of the structure and remove the most unstable parts to be able to carry out the investigation on the origin of the fire, has informed the body in a release.

So the investigation has only just started. Good they had pre arranged evacuation notices for video screens.

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