{"id":106955,"date":"2024-08-26T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/attendee-dies-on-1st-day-of-burning-man-festival-cause-of-death-not-released\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T18:00:08","slug":"attendee-dies-on-1st-day-of-burning-man-festival-cause-of-death-not-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/attendee-dies-on-1st-day-of-burning-man-festival-cause-of-death-not-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Attendee dies on 1st day of Burning Man Festival, cause of death not released"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-26\/GettyImages_BurningMan_082624.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Maxar Technologies\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(LOVELOCK, Nev.) &#8212; Authorities are investigating the death of a female attendee who died on the first day of the Burning Man Festival in Nevada&#8217;s Black Rock Desert.<\/p>\n<p>Burning Man\u2019s emergency services personnel found the victim unresponsive around 11:30 a.m. Sunday, according to the Burning Man Project. Deputies responded and confirmed her death, Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This death will remain under investigation until a Cause and Manner can be determined, which will be updated at the conclusion of an autopsy,&#8221; Allen said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Her name and age have not been released, pending notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts and condolences go out to the family and friends affected by this loss,&#8221; festival organizers said in a statement. &#8220;The safety and well-being of our staff and community are paramount. We are cooperating fully with local authorities as they investigate. &#8230; Out of respect for the privacy of the grieving family, we will not be providing further details at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Burning Man festival runs from Aug. 25 to Sept. 2. About 80,000 people attend Burning Man each year, according to the festival&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s festival was marred by torrential rains, with thousands mired in mud and told to stay in place and conserve food until they could safely exit the festival grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maxar Technologies\/Getty Images (LOVELOCK, Nev.) &#8212; Authorities are investigating the death of a female attendee who died on the first day of the Burning Man Festival in Nevada&#8217;s Black Rock Desert. Burning Man\u2019s emergency services personnel found the victim unresponsive around 11:30 a.m. Sunday, according to the Burning Man Project.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/attendee-dies-on-1st-day-of-burning-man-festival-cause-of-death-not-released\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}