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Here's the latest on tens of thousands of Burning Man attendees leaving the desert after being stranded.

Drugs are thought to be the cause of death for Leon Reece of Truckee, Calif., the lone fatality at the Burning Man festival this year.

The attendees of the annual festival were finally able to leave after flooding caused foot-deep mud to surround the area, making it impossible to get vehicles in.

Tens of thousands of festival-goers were stranded Sunday in deep mud in the Nevada desert after rain turned the annual Burning Man gathering into a quagmire, with police investigating one death. Video footage showed costume-wearing &quot&#x3B;burners&quot&#x3B; struggling across the wet gray...

Flooding Has Stranded Thousands In Nevada At Burning Man

BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. (AP) — An unusual late-summer storm turned a week-long counterculture fest into a muddy mess with tens of thousands of partygoers stuck in foot-deep mud and no working toilets in the northern Nevada desert, but some Burning Man partygoers said Sunday that their spirits remained unbroken.

Comedian Chris Rock and DJ Diplo were seen on video riding on a truck heading out of the Nevada desert over the weekend as thousands of Burning Man die-hards stay behind. 

CNN — Authorities are investigating the deaths at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert after thousands of people were trapped at the site. Heavy

Around 70,000 people were stranded in the Nevada desert due to excessive rain during the Burning Man festival.

Social media is awash with people claiming that the Ebola virus was found at the "Burning Man" festival in Black Rock City, Nevada. It's a hoax.