• Burning Man attendees abandoned their vehicles and left behind hordes of trash in the mud, a Nevada sheriff said. • Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen told the San Francisco Chronicle the mud made everything worse. • "This year is a little different in that there are numerous vehicles strewn all throughout the playa," Allen said. Burning Man attendees ditched their cars and left heaps of trash across a miles-long stretch in a Nevada desert as thousands of festival-goers began a mass exodus out of the muddy site, a local...

Thousands of people in attendance at the Burning Man festival in Nevada are dealing with “lengthy traffic” as of Tuesday, according to reports. Sgt. Nathan Carmichael with the Perishing County Sheriff’s Office told CNN on Sunday, “A little over 70,000 people” were stuck trying to get out after heavy rains showered the festival site. “There is an estimated 2-3 hour wait to leave Black Rock City,” festival organizers told the public via X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Tuesday morning, according to CNN. “Everyone should get plenty of rest...

As Burning Man attendees began their slow, muddy journey out of the remote northwestern Nevada desert, authorities on Monday identified a man who died at the festival, and an investigation is underway. Leon Reece, 32, was pronounced dead Friday, according to the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office. According to the Reno Gazette Journal, Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen said dispatchers received a call at 6:24 p.m. Friday about a man who was unresponsive and receiving CPR from medical personnel on the scene. But days of heavy rain made accessing the desert...

In Nevada, tens of thousands of participants at the annual Burning Man festival were left stranded over the weekend, after torrential rainfall covered normally dry campgrounds in mud and made roads impassable for days. Attendees had been told to shelter in place since Friday. The extreme weather capped a Burning Man festival that proceeded despite the objections of climate activists, who on August 27 peacefully blockaded a two-lane highway leading to the campgrounds to demand Burning Man ban private jets, single-use plastic and unlimited use of generators and propane tanks....

BLACK ROCK CITY, Nev. − Thousands of Burning Man festival-goers were stuck in a five-hour line of traffic as they tried to leave the event grounds Tuesday morning, after a weekend of rain stranded people for days in foot-deep mud. Traffic updates shared to Burning Man's X account, the platform formerly known as Twitter, said wait times to exit are five hours. Earlier updates indicate traffic is improving as officials urged people during the holiday weekend to wait until Tuesday to leave. About 73,000 people attended the annual festival, officials...

Organizers of the annual Burning Man music and arts festival lifted a driving ban on Monday afternoon as muddy roads that had stranded thousands of attendees in the Nevada desert had dried up enough to allow people to begin leaving. "Exodus operations have officially begun in Black Rock City," organizers posted Monday at 2 p.m. local time, about seven hours before the festival's fiery conclusion. The torching of a giant, faceless, man-shaped effigy had been postponed twice due to the weather. But as of Tuesday morning, the festival was asking...

Attendees trying to leave the muddy Burning Man festival are now having to deal with a traffic jam of more than 7 hours on Tuesday morning, reports say. A message posted on the X account Burning Man Traffic less than 24 hours after the Nevada festival’s organizers lifted a driving ban following heavy rainfall said, "Exodus wait times are approximately 7.5 hours." On Monday, the Burning Man website said "Exodus operations have officially begun in Black Rock City," also noting that in previous years, "Exodus wait times peaked at six...