Carolina Country Music Fest opens after being evacuated, closed due to lightning
Carolina Country Music Festival is reopened after temporarily closing Saturday afternoon as storms rolled in and lightning threatened the safety of concert-goers.
As of 4 p.m. the festival has reopened and people have been allowed to re-enter.
An alert sent by the Myrtle Beach Fire Department at 3 p.m. asked that people remain indoors because of another round of storms that is approximately 45 minutes away.
Around 2:30 p.m. officials announced that the festival venue was closing due to “extreme weather.”
“We encourage anyone who is outside to evacuate and find cover indoors until further notice,” a Facebook post from the department read.
A tweet from CCMF asked concert-goers to evacuate the property and download the fest’s app to know when the venue would reopen.
This story was originally published June 12, 2021 at 2:33 PM.
