Burning Man Attendee Reportedly Dies on First Day of 2024 Event

A woman died on the first day of the 2024 Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada over the weekend, local authorities and the event's organizers have confirmed. It is the latest in more than a half-dozen deaths that have occurred at the event in the past three decades.

According to a press release posted by the Burning Man Project, emergency services personnel responded to a report of an unresponsive individual at 11:29 a.m. on Sunday. Life saving measures were enacted immediately upon responders arriving to the scene...