{"id":628248,"date":"2026-06-08T22:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628248\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T22:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:40:11","slug":"summer-fest-at-the-beach-was-like-scene-from-final-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628248\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Summer Fest at the Beach was like scene from Final Destination&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emma Cox from Oxfordshire bought a VIP ticket and arrived at the festival at about 15:00 BST on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old said she immediately noticed problems inside the VIP tent and claimed that members of the public were holding metal poles down to steady the structure amid strong winds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We just did not feel safe in there at all,&#8221; she told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It felt inside that [VIP] tent like it was the scene from the Final Destination movie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cox said the tent was declared unsafe by security about 30 minutes later, and hundreds of people were moved into an outdoor area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[Staff] then shut all the facilities, so we couldn&#8217;t use the toilet, we couldn&#8217;t use the bar\u2026 then when we tried to leave to go and get a drink or anything, we were told that we could not leave the area as it was unsafe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was like being imprisoned into a tiny pen,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Organisers said some facilities in the VIP area were &#8220;temporarily closed as a precautionary safety measure&#8221; because of the severe weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;While we appreciate these measures may have caused frustration for some attendees, they were implemented solely to protect attendees, artists, staff and contractors while the weather conditions were assessed and monitored.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Cox from Oxfordshire bought a VIP ticket and arrived at the festival at about 15:00 BST on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-628248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}