A big fire broke out on Saturday evening in Disney WorldThe Epcot theme park in Orlando with an appointment cooler igniting in an area behind the scenes, Weekly entertainment learned.
The cooler was located in the Epcot area in France, in particular in a section reserved for employees not accessible to customers, a source familiar with the situation indicates to EW shortly after the flames were identified by visitors. The device caught fire around 7:20 p.m. local time, and quickly died before the fire spread more. No one was injured in the fire.
Incident images (Below), captured by a guest of the park, overlapping the attraction of Skyliner, shows a large black smoke escaping from an area between the adventure promenade of Remy’s Ratatouille in the French Pavilion of the Park and the aisles deeper in the Pavilion of the Park Park. The video shows that guests are nestled behind the scenes.
“Oh my God, that’s it!” Said a spectator shocked in the images, which shows a large cloud of swollen black smoke and a line of orange flames.
After the initial EW report on Saturday, local news In addition, indicated that the runners were evacuated from the adventure of Remy to Ratatouille during the fire.
EW contacted representatives of the Walt Disney World Resort as well as the Orlando fire service for more information.
More online circulating sequences show clouds of smoke that rose in the sky, visible from the ride region nearby just outside the Epcot doors.
Another Video recorded Saturday and shared in Tiktok shows the English interpreter Peter Noone singing on stage at the Pavilion America in the park while smoke fills the region. The 77 -year -old man turns to fire and exclaims: “France is on fire!” While the crowd shun at the observation, which occurred in the middle of the Flower & Garden Festival du Parc, a very busy annual spring event which attracts major crowds in Epcot.
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The fire Epcot is not the first major fire in a Disney Parks property. In recent years, the Maleficent Dragon Figure at Disneyland Park in California also caught fire during a Fantasy! Show performance at the beginning of 2023, leading to the abolition of the pyrotechnic effect later that year.
Epcot is one of the four main themed parks that currently work at Walt Disney World. It opened its doors as second in the Florida Resort range of parks, the first being Magic Kingdom, which opened in 1971. It was followed by Disney Hollywood studios (which opened its doors as Disney-MGM studios in 1989) and Animal Kingdom in 1998.