A third person has died at this year’s Burning Man Festival in the Nevada desert, according to the local sheriff’s office.
Details about the death, reported on Sept. 8, were not released as festival attendees faced the usual traffic jam on their way home from the annual event in Black Rock Desert about 110 miles north of Reno.
The death occurred en route to a Reno-area hospital on Sept. 4, according to the Burning Man Project.
“We are saddened to have learned that a Burning Man participant, who experienced a serious medical emergency in Black Rock City during the early hours of Friday, Sept. 4, and immediately received on-site lifesaving measures, later passed away after being transported to Reno for medical care,” a festival spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email. …