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Watch fire break out at Epcot inside Disney World park: ‘Oh my God!’

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A large fire broke out Saturday evening at Disney World‘s Epcot theme park in Orlando, Fla., with a walk-in cooler igniting inside a backstage area, Entertainment Weekly has learned.

The cooler was located in Epcot’s France area, specifically in an employees-only section not accessible to guests. The device caught on fire and was quickly extinguished before the blaze spread further. No one was injured in the fire.

Footage from the incident, captured by a park guest riding the Skyliner attraction, shows large black smoke billowing up from an area between the Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure ride within the park’s France pavilion and walkways deeper into the park’s Morocco pavilion. “Oh my God, it’s right there!” says a shocked onlooker in the footage below, which shows a large cloud of billowing black smoke and a line of orange flames.

EW has reached out to representatives for the Walt Disney World Resort as well as the Orlando Fire Department for more information.

Other footage circulating online shows clouds of smoke rising into the sky, visible from the nearby Boardwalk area just outside Epcot’s gates.

The Epcot fire isn’t the first major blaze at a Disney parks property. In recent years, the Maleficent dragon figure at California’s Disneyland park also caught fire during a Fantasmic! show performance in early 2023, leading to the removal of the pyrotechnic effect later that year.

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Epcot is one of four major theme parks currently operating at Walt Disney World. It opened as the second of the Florida resort’s lineup of parks, with the first being Magic Kingdom, which opened in 1971. It was followed by Disney’s Hollywood Studios (which opened as the Disney-MGM Studios in 1989) and Animal Kingdom in 1998.

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