Authorities are investigating a death that occurred on the first day of the infamous Burning Man festival in the northern Nevada desert.
The Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said emergency personnel responded to a call about a woman found unresponsive around noon Sunday in Black Rock City — a temporary city erected for the festival, some 100 miles north of Reno.
The Burning Man Project’s emergency services personnel were unsuccessful in attempting life-saving measures on the woman.
“It is with heavy hearts that Burning Man Project confirms the death of a participant in Black Rock City in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. Our ideas and condolences exit to the household and associates affected by this loss,” pageant organizers mentioned in a press release, including: “We are cooperating fully with local authorities as they investigate this incident.”
An aerial shot of the annual Burning Man pageant. (Satellite tv for pc picture ©2024 Maxar Applied sciences by way of AP)
Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen mentioned Sunday’s demise will stay below investigation till a trigger and method will be decided, which might be up to date on the conclusion of an post-mortem.
Allen mentioned the girl’s title and age will not be launched till her family members will be notified. However pageant organizers recognized the girl as 39-year-old Kendra Frazer.
The pageant, which mixes wilderness tenting with a weeklong celebration of artwork, kicked off early Sunday after the gates had been closed for 12 hours following rain and muddy situations.
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An estimated 20,000 individuals had been already on the playa earlier than the gates formally opened to all ticket-holders.
Recognized for its colourful theme camps, towering sculptures, drum circles, artwork automobiles and avant-garde theatrics, it grew from a gathering of about 4,000 in 1995 to 50,000 in 2010 and now briefly turns into Nevada’s third-largest metropolis after metropolitan Las Vegas and Reno.
BLACK ROCK DESERT, UNITED STATES: Dancers on the “Burning Man” pageant create patterns with fireworks within the Black Rock Desert of Nevada simply previous to burning a five-story, neon-lit effigy of a person on the final evening of the week-long pageant 06 September. (Mike Nelson//AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
In 2023, the thirty fifth annual Burning Man pageant was attended by an estimated 73,000 individuals with an extra 95,000 collaborating in regional occasions world wide.
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A few half-dozen different deaths have been reported on the pageant because it moved from Baker Seashore in San Francisco to Nevada’s Black Rock desert in 1990. Final yr, a 32-year-old California man died from suspected drug intoxication after being discovered unresponsive on the pageant grounds.
Different deaths recorded at Burning Man over time included a lady who was hit by a bus in 2014 and an attendee who fell below a trailer in 2007. In 1996, a pal of Burning Man co-founder Larry Harvey was killed in a collision with a van whereas using his bike at evening.
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Burning Man runs by means of Sept. 2. Organizers count on greater than 70,000 individuals to attend this yr’s occasion.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
