{"id":86134,"date":"2026-09-07T00:30:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86134"},"modified":"2026-09-07T08:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:45:11","slug":"man-found-dead-at-burning-man-as-festival-locked-down-over-weather-hazard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/man-found-dead-at-burning-man-as-festival-locked-down-over-weather-hazard\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Found Dead At Burning Man As Festival Locked Down Over Weather Hazard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From NBC:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-560w,f_avif,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2026-09\/260906-burning-man-festival-vl-359p-b0fa1d.jpg\" alt=\"A large wooden man sculpture, The Man, stands in Black Rock Desert, Nevada, surrounded by festival participants in colorful costumes and bicycles\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-ac8475\" class=\"body-graf\">A second Burning Man festivalgoer has died, the festival said Saturday.\u00a0Craigh Mann, 60, was found dead in his camp in Black Rock City, Nevada, at 3 p.m. Saturday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journal.burningman.org\/2026\/09\/news\/official-announcements\/participant-passes-away-at-2026-burning-man-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the festival said<\/a>. No cause of death was disclosed.\u00a0\u201cOur thoughts and deepest condolences are with the participant\u2019s family, friends, campmates, and all those affected by this loss,\u201d the festival said in a statement. It was the second death at the annual psychedelic, music and art festival in the Nevada desert, which draws a crowd of about 70,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <em> <strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/second-attendee-dies-burning-man-festival-rcna596380\">[For Full Story<\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mywabashvalley.com\/federal-executions\/william-lecroy-executed-at-u-s-penitentiary\/\">]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>From <em>New York Post (tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A man was found dead at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/03\/us-news\/burning-man-has-become-a-wrinkled-sausage-fest-of-aging-millennial-men-data-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert<\/a>, organizers revealed.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to the camp\u2019s emergency care center and pronounced dead. The death comes as rain forced the closure of the festival\u2019s main entry and exit gate in the Black Rock Desert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NBC: A second Burning Man festivalgoer has died, the festival said Saturday.\u00a0Craigh Mann, 60, was found dead in his.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}