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Leon Reece, 32, died on Friday after being found unresponsive at the Burning Man festival in Nevada, according to officials

Burning Man festival-goers began their mass exodus out of the muddy grounds in a Nevada desert on Monday after a torrential downpour.

Cleaning up after the festival is always a challenge, but this year the trash is soaked with mud and trapped in hardening sludge.

Ryan Taylor was rushed to the Sunrise Hospital where he died the next day. The cause of death has been identified as drowning. Here is everything about him.

The sheriff presiding over the Nevada county that hosts the annual art and music festival Burning Man slammed its tens of thousands of attendees over their abandoned cars and piles of trash they left behind as they fled the desert amid a brewing storm.

An unusual late-summer storm turned a week-long counterculture fest into a sloppy mess, with tens of thousands of partygoers stuck in foot-deep mud and with no working toilets in the

The traffic jam leaving the Burning Man festival has eased up considerably as the exodus from the mud-caked Nevada desert entered a second day following massive rain that left tens of thousands of partygoers stranded there for days. An unusual late-summer storm turned the weeklong fest into a sloppy mess, with tens of thousands stuck in foot-deep mud and with no working toilets. The gathering in the Black Rock Desert north of Reno attracts nearly 80,000 artists, musicians and activists for a mix...

A driving ban has since been lifted, but it's taking hours for most to exit.

An unusual late-summer storm turned the weeklong fest into a sloppy mess, with tens of thousands stuck in foot-deep mud and with no working toilets.

Muddy roads that left tens of thousands of partygoers stranded for days at a counterculture festival had dried up enough by Monday afternoon to allow them to begin their exodus from the northern Nevada desert.