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

Belgium's Tomorrowland, one of the world's largest electronic music festivals, opened its doors as planned on Friday, after the event was thrown into doubt by a fire that destroyed its main stage. After fire authorities and the police deemed it safe,

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.