A security guard keeps people back during the annual Burning Man festival on Sept. 4, 2023. JULIE JAMMOT/AFP via Getty Images Police reports for Burning Man are finally out, and according to the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office, arrests were down, with just 13 arrested at the 2023 event. A majority of the arrests this year — … Read more
Festival-goers at Burning Man were stranded through the weekend after heavy rain turned the Black Rock Desert into a makeshift mud pit. More than 70,000 attendees were ordered to shelter-in-place until Monday, according to Axios, due to persistent rainfall; the area reportedly saw the equivalent of two to three months of rain in a span … Read more
FILE – An unprecedented amount of rain turned Burning Man 2023 into a muddy mess. Ashley Harrell / SFGATE A man attending this year’s annual Burning Man festival died Friday, as a cold and wet weather system bore down Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, multiple media outlets reported. The Pershing County Sheriff’s Office identified the man … Read more