Three deaths occurred during the weeklong Burning Man event in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, according to the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office. The deaths have surpassed the event’s average of one per year.
Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen confirmed to the Reno Gazette Journal that a third person died while being transported to a hospital in Reno on Sept. 7. Authorities have not released the identity or details surrounding the third death. The deaths are under investigation by the Washoe County Regional Medical Examiner's Office.
The two other participants who died were identified as Craigh Mann, 60, and Sampson Tshombe. Campmates discovered Mann in a trailer he shared with his significant other around 3 p.m. local time on Sept. 5. Tshombe died after suffering a medical emergency on Sept. 3 at Rampart, Burning Man’s temporary on-site hospital. He was found lying in a street in Black Rock City, and emergency personnel performed CPR before he was pronounced dead.
Burning Man, which focused on radical self-expression, participation, communal effort and civic responsibility, drew about 70,000 people this year and concluded on Sept. 7. Attendees are responsible for managing their own food, water, and shelter. The event culminated with the traditional burning of the Man, a giant wooden effigy, on the night of Sept. 5. This latest death marks at least the sixth fatality connected to the event over the past four years, and at least 11 deaths have occurred at Burning Man since it moved to Nevada in 1990. The Pershing County Sheriff's Office continues to investigate the 2025 killing of Vadim Kruglov, a 37-year-old Russian national living in Washington state.
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