As one of the biggest electronic music festivals in the country, EDC Orlando welcomed 300,000 ravers last weekend to behold an audiovisual spectacle that includes big-name DJs, pyrotechnics, massive stages, lasers and a drone show. Now some of them are saying they felt unsafe there.

Tickets for this year’s three-day festival were sold out, meaning there were nearly 100,000 ravers each day, Nov. 7-9, at Tinker Field outside of Camping World Stadium. Those visitors travel from around the country and the world, providing an estimated $110 million economic impact for the greater Orlando area.

Following this year’s festival, event organizers are responding to criticism posted to Facebook, Instagram and Reddit from attendees that this year’s event was too crowded and that there was only one

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