Overview
- A member of the festival staff fainted before the venue gates opened on Sunday and was treated on site by two medical units before being transferred to Hospital La Plana de Villarreal.
- Hospital La Plana and Arenal Sound organizers later confirmed the worker’s death after the transfer to the hospital.
- After the evacuation and hospital transfer, the festival opened as planned and the final day continued without operational changes.
- Organizers issued condolences and said they do not know the cause of death, will not share further details out of respect for the worker’s privacy, and notified the Guardia Civil.
- Reporting cited festival and Guardia Civil sources that the death appears to be from natural causes, and noted this edition ran from July 30 to August 2 with a reinforced security deployment because of a nearby wildfire.