Fans roared in excitement and organizers sighed with relief as the Tomorrowland music festival kicked off Friday — just two days after a massive fire engulfed the main stage and threw one of Europe's biggest summer concert events into doubt.

A day before crowds were set to arrive for the Tomorrowland festival in Belgium, a fire broke out and severely damaged its iconic main stage. The incident occurred in the town of Boom, near Antwerp, just as final preparations were underway.

The main stage at Tomorrowland, an electronic dance music festival in Boom, Belgium, has been destroyed in a major fire. It became rapidly engulfed in flames on Wednesday, July 16, as seen in footage shared by Belgian news station VRT NWS.