According to Cleveland.com, members of both sides of the fight outside this past weekend's Firefest 2014 event in Lakewood, Ohio contacted each other prior to Saturday night to set up some kind of confrontation, police said. The brawl involved around 50 people and lasted only a few minutes, but left five people injured. 23 people, most of them from outside Northeast Ohio, were arrested after the fight, where five gunshots were reported. No one suffered any gunshot wounds. Police booking photos of all 23 people that were arrested in connection with the incident can be found at WTAM.com. Lakewood Police Chief Tim Malley said: "There were two groups of 50 or more people (total). By all appearances, they came together through some sort of mutual agreement." "There were two groups on either side (of the parking lot where the fight took place), they were facing each other and yelling," Jeff Koteles, a sound engineer for The Foundry concert hall, where Firefest was being held, told Cleveland.com. "One side had a couple of baseball bats. After about 30 seconds of them shouting insults at each other, they started fighting." Several people called 911 immediately after the fight started. Two of those calls can be heard below. "There's a huge fight, shots fired, they all have huge knives," a caller told a 911 dispatcher after reporting the fight. "Somebody probably got killed," she said. "I heard the gunshots, I saw a large group of people, around 30 adults," another caller told a dispatcher minutes later. Lakewood prosecutor Pam Roessner said that police were still interviewing the 23 suspects and charges would be filed after statements are taken. Saturday marked the second night of Firefest 2014. 13 hardcore and metal bands including RINGWORM and DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR were set to play at The Foundry. 9-1-1 call #1 (audio):
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