Authorities in Nevada are investigating a death at the site of the Burning Man festival, where thousands of attendees remained stranded after flooding from storms swept through the Nevada desert in the United States.<\/p>\n

Organisers closed vehicular access to the counter-culture festival in the western US state on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Attendees trudged through mud, many barefoot or wearing plastic bags on their feet.<\/p>\n

The revellers were urged to shelter in place and conserve food, water and other supplies.<\/p>\n

The Pershing County Sheriff\u2019s Office said the death happened during the event in Black Rock City, but offered few details, declining to reveal the identity of the deceased person or the suspected cause of death, local TV channel KNSD reported.<\/p>\n

On the Burning Man website, the event\u2019s organisers encouraged participants to remain calm and suggested that the festival is built to endure conditions like the flooding. They said that mobile phone trailers were being dropped in several locations on Saturday night, and that they would be briefly making the internet available overnight.<\/p>\n

Shuttle buses were also being organised to take attendees to Reno \u2013 a city southwest of the festival site \u2013 from Gerlach, a town about 8km (5 miles) from Black Rock City.<\/p>\n

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The gate and airport in and out of Black Rock City remain closed. Ingress and egress are halted until further notice. No driving is permitted except emergency vehicles. If you are in BRC, conserve food and water, and shelter in a warm space. More updates to come. Stay safe!<\/p>\n

\u2014 Burning Man Traffic (@bmantraffic) September 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cBurning Man is a community of people who are prepared to support one another. We have come here knowing this is a place where we bring everything we need to survive,\u201d the organisers said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is because of this that we are all well-prepared for a weather event like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Celebrity DJ Diplo posted a video to Instagram on Saturday evening showing him and comedian Chris Rock riding in the back of a fan\u2019s pick-up truck. He said they had walked 9.7km (6 miles) through the mud before hitching a ride.<\/p>\n

\u201cI legit walked the side of the road for hours with my thumb out,\u201d wrote Diplo, whose real name is Thomas Wesley Pentz.<\/p>\n

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just walked 5 miles in the mud out of burning man with chris rock and a fan picked us up pic.twitter.com\/0uxSXLHgY6<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 diplo (@diplo) September 2, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Vehicle gates will not open for the remainder of the event, which began on August 27 and was scheduled to end on Monday, according to the US Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the Black Rock Desert where the festival is being held.<\/p>\n

Officials said late Saturday that the entrance to the event remained closed, and it wasn\u2019t immediately known when celebrants could leave the grounds. But if weather conditions improve, they were hopeful vehicles could depart by late Monday.<\/p>\n

The announcements came just before the culminating moment for the annual event \u2013 when a large wooden effigy was to be burned Saturday night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n