{"id":86261,"date":"2026-09-08T10:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T14:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86261"},"modified":"2026-09-08T10:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T14:09:16","slug":"third-burning-man-festivalgoer-dies-as-sheriff-laments-rise-of-deaths-during-40th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/third-burning-man-festivalgoer-dies-as-sheriff-laments-rise-of-deaths-during-40th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Burning Man Festivalgoer Dies \u2014 As Sheriff Laments Rise Of Deaths During 40th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>New York Post (tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A third Burning Man reveler has died during the festival\u2019s 40th anniversary, officials confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The festivalgoer, who has not yet been publicly identified, died while being rushed to a hospital in Reno \u2014\u00a0 about 120 miles away from the event grounds in the Black Rock Desert,<a href=\"https:\/\/mynews4.com\/news\/local\/third-death-at-burning-man-confirmed-by-the-pershing-county-sheriffs-office-burning-man-festival-gerlach-black-rock-city-burners-burn-washoe-county-sheriffs-office-sampson-tshombe-craig-mann-burning-man-project-deaths-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0KRX12 reported<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cAlthough we average 1 death a year at the Festival, we have had two so far this year within the confines of the Festival and I have received information regarding a third who died in transit to a hospital in Reno,\u201d Jerry Allen, Pershing County sheriff and coroner,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/second-attendee-dies-burning-man-festival-rcna596380\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0told NBC News<\/a>\u00a0in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New York Post (tabloid): A third Burning Man reveler has died during the festival\u2019s 40th anniversary, officials confirmed. The.<\/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-86261","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\/86261","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=86261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86264,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86261\/revisions\/86264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}