<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A huge fire at Belgium's Tomorrowland music festival site has “severely damaged” the main stage two days before the event was due to start, organisers said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>No one was injured in the incident.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Images shared on local news sites and social media showed flames and plumes of black smoke engulfing the stage and spreading to nearby woodland.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-update-jeffrey-esptein-documents-pressure-leads-trump-to-call-past-supporters-weaklings/f61951f4-db75-42e4-8edd-653d777bd11a"><strong><span>Trump lashes out at 'weaklings' who believe Epstein 'hoax'</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The annual festival in the town of Boom, north of Brussels, which is scheduled to start on Friday (Saturday AEST), draws tens of thousands of visitors from around Europe.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The festival's main stage has almost completely burned down, according to Belgium public broadcaster VRT, which added that emergency services were on the scene but the fire was not yet under control.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>No festival-goers were on site at the time of the fire, but about 1000 staff members were present, who have now been evacuated, VRT reported.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/fire-engulfs-main-stage-of-belgiums-tomorrowland-music-festival-ahead-of-friday-start/2bb911bb-c1e0-4d08-9f94-39b25154331e" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Organisers said in their statement that the site's "DreamVille" campsite would open on Thursday as planned and they were "focused on finding solutions for the festival weekend".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>‘’Due to a serious incident and fire on the Tomorrowland Mainstage, our beloved Mainstage has been severely damaged,'' the organisers posted on the event's website.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>‘’We can confirm that no one was injured during the incident.''</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/lunar-soil-could-support-life-on-the-moon-new-research-claims/9ad04d1b-c8f8-49be-8d6e-90550d82c013"><strong><span>'Magic' new breakthrough could help support life on the moon</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Morgan Hermans, who lives nearby to the festival site, told CNN that she initially heard fireworks going off, which prompted her to look outside.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"There was just a big cloud of fireworks and smoke very near us, so that was a bit scary," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's one of the biggest events in the entire year. Our town is very small so to welcome people (from) around the entire world, it's crazy and it's so much fun."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's a big deal so everyone in Boom was a bit terrified for a few seconds," Hermans added.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Local police confirmed the fire in a post on X and encouraged people to stay away from the smoke and give way to emergency services.</span></div></div>