{"id":838957,"date":"2026-09-07T00:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T00:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838957\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T00:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T00:34:10","slug":"second-festivalgoer-dies-at-burning-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838957\/","title":{"rendered":"Second festivalgoer dies at Burning Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-ac8475\" class=\"body-graf\">A second Burning Man festivalgoer has died, the festival said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-ca19e4\" class=\"body-graf\">Craigh Mann, 60, was found dead in his camp in Black Rock City, Nevada, at 3 p.m. Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.burningman.org\/2026\/09\/news\/official-announcements\/participant-passes-away-at-2026-burning-man-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the festival said<\/a>. No cause of death was disclosed.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-4c138d\" class=\"body-graf\">\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.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-705714\" class=\"body-graf\">The Pershing County Sheriff\u2019s Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-caf9f1\" class=\"body-graf\">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 id=\"anchor-8a02bd\" class=\"body-graf\">The festival said last week that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/burning-man-attendee-dies-festival-grounds-rcna596203\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a man in his mid-50s<\/a> died after a medical emergency.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-f5a3a1\" class=\"body-graf\">He \u201cimmediately received lifesaving measures, and was transported to the onsite center for emergency care where he was pronounced deceased,\u201d the festival said. His name was not disclosed pending family notification.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-34c8f4\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">The festival started Aug. 30 and is scheduled through Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second Burning Man festivalgoer has died, the festival said Saturday. Craigh Mann, 60, was found dead in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-838957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}