Burning Man attendees 'lash out' with exodus wait times still about four hours
As festival-goers fled the Nevada desert in a chaotic scene, more mayhem has broken out at Burning Man.
As they waited in lengthy lines to exit the desert, participants "lashed out" at one another, according to Pershing County Sheriff.
“As usually happens in what Burners refer to as the ‘default world’ people allow their emotions to override their reasonableness and they are lashing out at each other as they leave the playa,” Sheriff Jerry Allen said.
According to a social media account linked to the festival, the wait time to depart the playa is predicted to be 3.5 hours.
Meanwhile, 32-year-old Leon Reece was revealed to be the man who died. Although the precise cause and manner of Reece's death are still under investigation, drug intoxication was suspected, according to a statement released on Tuesday by the Washoe County Medical Examiner's Office. The authorities also refuted the hoax that an Ebola breakout occurred during the festival.
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The Center for Disease Control (CDC) in a statement confirmed there are no reports of Ebola at Burning Man (AFP via Getty Images)The Center for Disease Control (CDC) in a statement confirmed there are no reports of Ebola at Burning Man, The Independent reported.
“CDC has not received any reports of Ebola at the Burning Man Festival and has not issued any warnings or had any requests for assistance from the state and local health departments either,” a spokesperson for the CDC said.
“Additionally, we have not received reports of Mpox or Marburg, and to our knowledge a national emergency for the flooding has not been declared.”A California man likely died at the mud-impacted Burning Man festival from drug intoxication, a coroner’s office has said. Leon Reece was found unresponsive on the remote and weather-hit Nevada festival grounds on Friday evening, according to authorities.
The exact cause and manner of Reece’s death are still pending but the Washoe County Medical Examiner’s Office said in a statement that drug intoxication was suspected (AP)The exact cause and manner of Reece’s death are still pending but the Washoe County Medical Examiner’s Office said in a statement that drug intoxication was suspected.
After the annual Black Rock Desert festival concluded this week, locals of a well-liked stopover for Burning Man visitors have complained about illegal waste being deposited in the neighbourhood.
In the days following the addition of Burning Man in 2022, tents, food, and alcohol bottles have all been seen near Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada border and neighbouring Reno, Nevada, according to shop owners, locals, and officials.
locals of a well-liked stopover for Burning Man visitors have complained about illegal waste being deposited in the neighbourhood (AFP via Getty Images)“What I’ve seen are large construction bags of trash, alcohol bottles, tons of food, tents and large aluminium poles from shade structures,” said a business owner in Truckee, California.
Elon Musk lavished praise on the Burning Man festival after this year's event fell into calamity, leaving hundreds of people stuck in the Nevada desert due to severe flooding and one fatality.
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