About 20,000 people had to be evacuated amid a massive fire at a music festival in Spain.

Images from the scene show towering flames consuming a large outdoor stage at the Tomorrowland electronic music festival at Barcelona's Parc de Can Zam on Saturday night.

Firefighters said there were no serious injuries during the concert evacuation but the event's private security treated 20 people for minor injuries or anxiety.

The cause of the blaze is being investigated, but the Tomorrowland website published a statement saying the "stage caught fire due to a technical malfunction".

The festival in Barcelona was one of several offshoot events of a main Tomorrowland festival in Belgium.

Organisers say the Barcelona event has been cancelled following the fire. </s> BARCELONA, Spain — A spectacular fire at a music festival in Spain forced the evacuation of more than 20,000 concertgoers in Barcelona, the regional government said.

Images showed towering flames consuming a large outdoor stage on Saturday night at the Tomorrowland electronic music festival held at Barcelona's Parc de Can Zam.

Barcelona firefighters said there were no serious injuries during the concert evacuation, but the event's private security treated 20 people for minor injuries or anxiety.

Firefighters are investigating the cause of the fire. The Tomorrowland website published a statement saying the “stage caught fire due to a technical malfunction.”

Organizers said the event was canceled after the fire.

The festival in Barcelona was one of several offshoot events of a main Tomorrowland”festival in Belgium. </s> A spectacular fire at a music festival in Spain has forced the evacuation of over 20,000 concertgoers in Barcelona, the regional government says.

Images show towering flames consuming a large outdoor stage Saturday night at the "Tomorrowland" electronic music festival held at Barcelona's Parc de Can Zam.

Barcelona firefighters say there were no serious injuries during the concert evacuation. The event's private security told authorities they treated 20 people for minor injuries or anxiety during the evacuation.

Firefighters are investigating the cause of the fire. The "Tomorrowland" website published a statement saying the "stage caught fire due to a technical malfunction."

The festival in Barcelona was one of several offshoot events of a main "Tomorrowland" festival in Belgium. Organizers say the Barcelona event has been canceled following the fire.

This version corrects the fire to Saturday night. </s> CLOSE

A video grab made from footage by Angel Rodao, via Instagram account @mayde_luna, shows flames and smoke at Tomorrowland music festival in Santa Coloma de Gramenet near Barcelona. Organizers blamed the fire Saturday night on a technical malfunction. (Photo: Angel Rodao via Instagram, AFP/Getty Images)

BARCELONA — A huge fire at a music festival in Spain forced the evacuation of more than 20,000 concertgoers and incinerated the event's stage in Barcelona, the regional government said Sunday.

The fire Saturday night consumed the large outdoor stage at Tomorrowland EDM festival held at Parc de Can Zam. Twelve firefighting units needed around an hour to extinguish the flames just before midnight.

Firefighters said they were investigating the cause. Tomorrowland published a statement on Facebook saying the "stage caught fire due to a technical malfunction."

Barcelona firefighters said there were no serious injuries during the evacuation but the event's private security treated 20 people for minor injuries or anxiety.

Video images show the fire starting at the top of a tall temporary structure erected on the stage where a large screen showed a performer singing. The towering flames quickly spread until they engulfed the entire stage.

In a statement, regional authorities said the fire "completely destroyed the stage" and that its charred remains "run the risk of collapsing."

The festival in Barcelona was one of several offshoots of a main Tomorrowland festival in Belgium. Organizers said the Barcelona event was canceled following the fire.

Read or Share this story: https://usat.ly/2wbLidX </s> Smoke rises from the stage at the Tomorrowland Unite Spain festival.

SOCIAL MEDIA / Reuters </s> A terrorist threat led to the evacuation of tens of thousands of music fans Friday from the Rock am Ring festival in Nuerburg, Germany, police and concert organizers said. "The organizers of Rock am Ring in close coordination with police have suspended the festival for today," Koblenz police said in a statement.

Start the conversation, or Read more at 5NEWSonline.com. </s> An 80,000-person rock festival at the Nürburgring race track in Nürburg, Germany was evacuated Friday evening, moments before headliner Rammstein took the stage. Organizers of the Rock am Ring festival said in statement that police had warned of a bomb threat against the event and cleared out the festival to perform a security sweep.

“Due to a terrorist threat the police have advised us to interrupt the festival. We ask all festival visitors to leave the festival in a calm and controlled manner towards the exits and camping grounds. We have to support the police investigations,” according to a translated statement provided to Billboard by festival owner Live Nation. “All visitors will be kept informed about any developments on all Rock am Ring Social Media channels, radio and the speakers. We hope that the festival will continue tomorrow. Thank you for your cooperation.”

The evacuation comes less than two weeks after a suicide bomber struck an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, killing 22 individuals and injuring over 100 more. A benefit concert featuring Grande, Katy Perry, Justin Beiber, Coldplay, and others is set to take place this Sunday.

Music writer Rick Fulker was at Rock am Ring and took to Twitter to post images of the evacuation showing many disappointed music fans leaving the festival site.

Rock am Ring is owned by Live Nation and created by German promoter Marek Leiberberg, whose company MLK was Live Nation purchased in August 2015. Rock am Ring includes headliners Rammstein, Die Toten Hosen, and System Of A Down along with performers Bastille, Five Finger Death Punch, Liam Gallagher, Rag’n’Bone Man, Sum 41, Machine Gun Kelly, Prophets Of Rage, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, and Pierce The Veil.

According to The Guardian, Lieberberg held an impromptu press conference and told journalists at the scene he hoped the festival could resume Saturday.

“The public reacted fantastically,” he said regarding the evacuation. </s> One of Germany’s biggest music festivals has been abruptly halted due to a “concrete” terrorist threat.

Around 87,000 fans are evacuated Friday from the three-day ‘Rock am Ring’ music festival near Nürburg in western Germany.

In a statement on Facebook, the festival’s organizers urged all those attending to leave the site in a “calm and controlled manner” after being warned of a “terrorist threat.”

“We hope that the festival will continue tomorrow. Thank you for your cooperation,” the statement added.

In a separate statement, local police said that “investigations are currently under way” regarding “concrete indications, which cannot exclude a possible terrorist threat.” In the wake of a recent attack at a music concert in Manchester, all precautions are being taken for the event, with 1,200 police officers already deployed at the scene.

Last year, Germany experienced its first major Islamist terrorist attack, when Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorist Anis Amri deliberately drove a truck into a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 civilians.

The Rock am Ring festival, which was scheduled to run until Sunday, is an annual event held at the Nürburgring arena near the historic city of Nürburg, focused mainly on rock and metal music. In the past, the biggest danger to fans’ health and lives was the weather – over 70 people were injured and 42 sent to the hospital after the event was hit by lightning strikes last year. None of the injuries, however, were life-threatening. </s> German police have ordered an evacuation of the Rock Am Ring festival in Nurburg, Germany due to a “terrorist threat.”

The organizers released a statement saying: “Due to a terrorist threat the police have advised us to interrupt the festival.

“We ask all festival visitors to leave the festival site in a calm and controlled manner towards the exits and camping grounds. We have to support the police investigations.

“All visitors will be kept informed about any developments on all Rock am Ring Social Media channels, radio and the speakers. We hope that the festival will continue tomorrow. Thank you for your cooperation.”

Over 80,000 fans are attending the event, which began today and is supposed to run to June 4th. Headliners for the event included Rammstein and System Of A Down. BraveWords scribe Carl Begai reports Rock Am Ring’s sister festival in Nuremberg went ahead without incident.
A fire forces the evacuation of more than 22,000 concertgoers at the Tomorrowland music festival at the Parc de Can Zam in Barcelona, Spain. There were no serious injuries. This is the first time the festival has been held in Spain; Belgium had been the home since 2005.