The event has been evacuated.
Thousands of people have been evacuated from a popular music festival in Croatia as a result of a forest fire.
The Fresh Island Festival is a three-day hip-hop event on the Croatian island of Pag.
However, fires broke out, and fans were forced to evacuate in the early hours of this morning.
In a statement, the festival organisers said:
“The safety of fans is incredibly important to us and we worked with the emergency services to contain the fire over the following hours, transporting festival-goers off site when possible and safe.”
They also said that emergency services are still trying to contain the fire, “so we can’t say just yet how this will affect today’s beach performances”.
They also thanked the festival attendees:
“We would like to say a big thank you to all Fresh Islanders who were at the festival for being so patient and supportive of each other and for cooperating with security and emergency services during the fire to stay safe.”
The emergency services are still working to contain the remaining fire so we can’t say just yet how this will affect today’s beach performances. Rest assured we’re doing everything we can to go ahead as planned to continue the parties.
— Fresh Island fest (@freshislandfest) July 16, 2019
The wildfire at Fresh Island Festival right now is mad. Whole thing been locked off pic.twitter.com/qUCu2QPodw
— Chloe Foskett (@ChloeeeeF) July 16, 2019
UPDATE: Due to the ongoing fire we have now been instructed by the police that they have had to shut the road to Novalja and unfortunately will not let buses pass through. Zrce Beach is now closed for safety precautions. pic.twitter.com/nHtEINconh
— Fresh Island fest (@freshislandfest) July 16, 2019
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