After medical teams at the site administered C.P.R., a doctor there pronounced Mr. The sheriff said the cause of death had not been determined, and that deputies’ efforts to reach the playa on Friday evening were delayed by the wet conditions.
Sheriff Allen also provided details on the death of a Burning Man attendee, identified as Leon Reece, 32.
“Some participants were unwilling to wait or use the beaten path to attempt to leave the desert,” he wrote, “and have had to abandon their vehicles and personal property wherever their vehicle came to rest.” Sheriff Jerry Allen of Pershing County, Nev., said in an email that numerous vehicles had been abandoned and strewn across the playa this year. This year, heaps of abandoned, mud-covered trash have turned the early stages of the cleanup into a slog, testing the environmental mettle of a nine-day celebration that prides itself on its “leave no trace” ethic, but that also generates mountains of garbage. The Bureau of Land Management says it spends $2.7 million a year on the event.
Burning Man filed a lawsuit in 2019 claiming it was being overcharged for the $2.9 million it pays in annual permit fees to cover the government’s cost of overseeing the festival. Asselin said the festival’s restoration teams typically do an “outstanding job,” but if the government’s inspectors are not satisfied, they will work further with Burning Man to do additional cleanup.īurning Man and the Bureau have spent years in legal disputes over money. Bureau of Land Management will survey random parts of the 4,000-acre site to judge whether the cleanup was sufficient, said John Asselin, a spokesman for the agency.
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