Neal Katyal, a law professor at Georgetown University and former acting solicitor general in the Obama administration, said that he and several others hiked six miles to Gerlach, the nearest town. “just walked 5 miles in the mud out of burning man with chris rock and a fan picked us up,” Diplo wrote. In a video posted by the music producer Diplo on Saturday evening on X, formerly known as Twitter, he can be seen leaving the festival with the comedian Chris Rock and others on the back of a vehicle. On Sunday afternoon, a White House official said that President Biden had been briefed on the situation and that administration officials were in touch with state and local officials.Īccounts of the mud and efforts to leave ricocheted across social media and became something of a sensation in itself. “Burners aren’t victims,” he said, using the name that attendees are known by.īut the authorities were investigating the death of one participant, and the worsening conditions on Sunday - it was raining harder in the afternoon than on the previous two days - could delay people leaving the event, which ends Monday and in normal conditions causes a lengthy traffic backup. He added that “when it’s time to leave, we’ll leave.” “Burning Man is an all-weather state of mind,” Star Heartsong, 43, a tech entrepreneur who came from Austin, Texas, had said earlier. True to form, some were taking it in stride. It was an unusual turn of events that tested the resolve of participants, who were told to conserve food and water, at the more than three-decade-old festival that prides itself on grit and self-reliance and normally battles excessive heat and, sometimes, excessive partying. The announcement marked the second postponement of the burn, which had been initially slated for Saturday night. The torrential rains that turned roads and grounds into muck and left thousands of people stranded at the Burning Man festival also put off the climax of the carefree celebration of art, music and counterculture: The annual burning of a manlike figure did not happen on Sunday night as had been planned.Ī social media account associated with the Burning Man Project’s website said the burn would instead happen on Monday night, adding that the muddy conditions and rain had made moving heavy and fire safety equipment to the site unfeasible. 9 ran into the sea to escape the scalding steam and ash and emerged covered in burns, say those who first helped them.Update: Some Burning Man attendees may get to leave on Monday. Survivors of a powerful volcanic eruption in New Zealand on Monday Dec. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has indicated the country will investigate the incident after some have questioned why tourists were allowed near the volcano when it was in a heightened state of activity.Ĭover: A woman places flowers on a fence at the waterfront in Whakatane, New Zealand, Wednesday, Dec. Many of the visitors on the day of the eruption had stopped by as an excursion from a nearby cruise ship. The volcano last erupted in 2016 but the last fatal eruption was in 1914. White Island is a popular tourist destination visited by thousands of people every year. READ: 'No signs of life' after volcano on New Zealand's White Island erupts That steam likely led to some of the horrible burn injuries. When the volcano erupted, it would have likely released poisonous gas and blasts of ultra-hot steam, Jessica Johnson, a volcanologist at the University of East Anglia in England, told CNN. Saying it was like a war zone would not be an understatement," he told the Herald.
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READ: Rescuers can't get to New Zealand volcano victims because they're afraid of another eruptionīonning said that when victims arrived for treatment at Waikato Hospital, they smelled of sulphur and had bits of burned skin falling off. "It's one of the most challenging things to look at because you know the patients are in so much pain and will be fighting for their life for the next two or three weeks, and even then they could die," John Bonning, an emergency doctor treating burn patients at a local hospital, told The New Zealand Herald.
Some victims are suffering through enormous pain and still may not survive their injuries. Officials said every burn unit in the country is at capacity and that they had to order the surplus skin for grafts to treat severe burns. Twenty-seven people were burned over at least 30 percent of their body, said New Zealand’s chief medical officer, Dr. Nearly 50 people were injured and 25 remain in critical condition. At least six people were killed by Monday’s eruption, and nine who are missing are presumed dead, with rescue crews hampered by smoke and a possible second eruption.
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