A big fireplace broke out Saturday night at Disney World's Epcot theme park in Orlando, Fla., with a walk-in cooler igniting inside a backstage space, Leisure Weekly has realized.

The cooler was positioned in Epcot's France space, particularly in an employees-only part not accessible to visitors. The machine caught on fireplace and was shortly extinguished earlier than the blaze unfold additional. Nobody was injured within the fireplace.

Footage from the incident (under), captured by a park visitor using the Skyliner attraction, reveals massive black smoke billowing up from an space between the Remy's Ratatouille Journey trip inside the park's France pavilion and walkways deeper into the park's Morocco pavilion. "Oh my God, it's proper there!" says a shocked onlooker within the footage which reveals a big cloud of billowing black smoke and a line of orange flames.

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EW has reached out to representatives for the Walt Disney World Resort in addition to the Orlando Fireplace Division for extra data.

Different footage circulating on-line reveals clouds of smoke rising into the sky, seen from the close by Boardwalk space simply outdoors Epcot's gates.

The Epcot fireplace isn't the primary main blaze at a Disney parks property. Lately, the Maleficent dragon determine at California's Disneyland park additionally caught fireplace throughout a Fantasmic! present efficiency in early 2023, resulting in the removing of the pyrotechnic impact later that yr.

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Epcot is certainly one of 4 main theme parks at present working at Walt Disney World. It opened because the second of the Florida resort's lineup of parks, with the primary being Magic Kingdom, which opened in 1971. It was adopted by Disney's Hollywood Studios (which opened because the Disney-MGM Studios in 1989) and Animal Kingdom in 1998.

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