By Paddy Dinham For Mailonline and Regina F. Graham For Dailymail.com
Emergency services bravely tried to rescue a festival-goer who ran straight into the Burning Man during Nevada’s famous arts and music festival.
Approximately 70,000 people from all over the world have gathered for the annual Burning Man festival, which is taking place in the Black Rock Desert.
But crowds were horrified when one reveller made a beeline for the giant wooden effigy and was engulfed by the flames.
He had to dodge a number of rangers and law enforcement personnel in order to reach the fire, which stretches approximately 50 feet into the air.
It is not yet known if the man died as a result of the shocking incident.
Festival organizers issued a statement through its website to say that at ‘approximately 10.30pm Saturday evening, a male participant at the annual Burning Man event in Northern Nevada broke through a safety perimeter and into into a fire. Black Rock City fire personnel rescued him from the fire.’
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A Burning Man participant evading the attempted tackles of multiple rangers and law enforcement personnel ran into the flames of the ‘Man Burn’ on Saturday night
The identity of the man who ran into the flames on Saturday night has not been released by officials
The man who ran into the flames was quickly engulfed as emergency services nobly tried to battle their way through in an attempt to rescue him
Above a firefighter watches as the Burning Man participant (L) falls into the flames of the ‘Man Burn’ at the festival on Saturday night
Firefighters were forced to abandon their attempted rescue of a Burning Man participant (body seen at lower left rear) who ran into the flames due to dangerous situation
He had to dodge a number of rangers and law enforcement personnel in order to reach the fire, which stretches approximately 50 feet into the air. It is not yet known if the man died as a result of the shocking incident
Emergency personnel gather in a huddle while they respond to the man who ran into the flames at the festival on Saturday night
The Man is engulfed in flames as approximately 70,000 people from all over the world gathered for the annual arts and music festival to watch the wooden effigy burn
The Burning Man (pictured before it was set on fire) stretches up to 50ft into the air.
Lights shining across the temporary city as thousands of participants gather to watch the Man burn
‘The individual was treated on scene, transported to the on-site medical facility and airlifted to a burn center’.
During the fiery destruction of the 50-foot-tall man, thousands of participants danced and partied at the annual event, which is held two hours north of Reno on an ancient dry lake bed.
Saturday marked the height of the art and music festival celebration, where Burners had gathered to witness the lighting of the symbolic ritual burning of the huge wooden effigy.
Prior to the burn, The Man towered over the temporary city for a week. The event on Saturday night is traditionally rowdy while the event Sunday night is the subdued burning of the Temple.
The annual event is held in the Nevada desert, where 70,000 people help built and maintain a temporary city, complete with its own airport
The psychedelic symposium known as Burning Man was still going strong as it entered its eighth day on Saturday
Saturday marks the height of the festival , where thousands will gather in the evening to witness the lighting of ‘the Man’
The huge effigy art forms the centrepiece of the Burning Man festival stretches around 50 feet up in the air
Temperatures in the desert have exceeded 100 degrees at times, while punishing dust storms covered most of the desert gala in sand over the past few days
People gather around a structure lit with pink and purple lights. Many burners ride around the desert on bicycles
Two burners dressed in eccentric costumes dance the night away at Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert
The art and music festival in the Nevada desert runs over nine days until September 4 in Black Rock Desert
The mutant vehicle Abraxas travels across Black Rock Desert, Nevada as tens of thousands of people enjoy this year’s Burning Man festival
The 2017 Temple at Burning Man created by artists Steven Brummond, Marisha Farnsworth, and Mark Sinclair as a place for people to place memorials, to mourn and grieve
A participant fills out emotional baggage tickets at Big Imagination’s 747 as approximately 70,000 people from all over the world gathered for the annual Burning Man festival
The Temple is another wooden structure that has been stuffed with notes, memories and remembrances from festival goers throughout the week. It will also be burned Sunday evening.
This year’s festival theme is Radical Ritual, with organizers inviting participants to celebrate ‘the ambiguous ground that lies between reverence and ridicule, faith and belief, the absurd and the stunningly sublime,’ according to the official Burning Man website.
Dozens of art installations were constructed before the end of the weekend, some made from wire, others as patterns on the ground and some as immersive experiences.
Stunning photographs show the larger-than-life art installations that are the focal points of this year’s festival theme of Radical Ritual, which is to honor rituals that humankind has made, including the festival.
Participants surround a burning art installation as approximately as they enjoy festivities at the Burning Man festival in Nevada
A mutant vehicle travels across the Black Rock desert, Nevada, one of many amazing displays seen at the 2017 Burning Man festival
Participants fight in Death Guild’s Thunderdome on the seventh night of the Burning Man festival in Nevada
A mutant vehicle travels across the playa as approximately 70,000 people from all over the world gathered for the annual Burning Man arts and music festival
Those who attend the festival operate on a system of barter trading – swapping items and services for what they need – no money is required
Participants compete in blindfolded oiled wrestlingas approximately 70,000 people from all over the world gathered for the annual festival
Participant Ryan Salazar fills out emotional baggage tickets at Big Imagination’s 747 as approximately 70,000 people from all over the world gathered for the annual Burning Man arts and music festival
Two participants embrace as an art installation burns as the seventh day of festivities at the Burning Man event comes to a close
The event’s website says: ‘Burning Man is permeated with rituals. These rites speak of soulful need; the desire to belong to a place, to belong to a time, to belong to one another, and to belong to something that is greater than ourselves, even in the midst of impermanence.
‘Throughout all ages temples have been built in order to induce these feelings.’
Every year, several ‘temples’ are built according to a theme and on the last day, they are burned down in a ritualistic ceremony.
The festival, which began in 1986 as a bonfire, has erected a temple commemorating the Golden Spike and participants are invited to visit the shrine and make offerings that embody what Burning Man’s culture means to them.
The ‘Rabid Transit’ Burning Man art car erupts with flames from it’s onboard propane poofers during the seventh night of festivities
Participants climb atop Death Guild’s Thunderdome to watch the fights below, just one of many fantastic attractions constructed at this year’s Burning Man festival
Participants push the art piece The Jack along the desert as over 70,000 people from all over the world enjoy day seven of the Burning Man festival
Participant Eric Meza, who has braved scorching heat and a dust storm during the Burning Man festival, works on a bike
A participant takes in an elevated view of the temporary city built in Black Rock desert each year as approximately 70,000 gather in Nevada
A mutant vehicle drives through the temporary city in Black Rock Desert, Nevada where the annual Burning Man festival is erected
The Black Rock City is described as a ‘metropolis dedicated to community, art, self-expression and self-reliance’
The art and music festival runs over nine days until September 4 in Black Rock Desert, which is about 120 miles north of Reno
Burners come from around the world to see the city, which is built up in the months before people arrive, and completely dismantled after they leave
The premise of the Burning Man festival is that almost everything is created entirely by its citizens, who are active participants in the experience.
Since money is practically outlawed on the site, ‘Burners’ are urged to barter for commodities and in the past fans have taken to social media to swap items such as crystals for festival tickets.
The remote week-long rave is often described as ‘where Mad Max meets Woodstock’.
Temperatures in the desert have exceeded 100 degrees at times, while punishing dust storms covered most of the desert gala in sand earlier in the week.
The art and music festival runs over nine days until September 4 in the Black Rock Desert, which was transformed into a ‘metropolis dedicated to community, art, self-expression and self-reliance’.
Under the theme of Radical Ritual, several impressive structures and sculptures have been erected in the Black Rock Desert
Two participants swing as approximately 70,000 people from all over the world gathered for the annual Burning Man arts and music festival
The theme this year for the festival is designed to honour the ritual humankind has made, that speak of a need to belong to a place
Around 70,000 people are at Burning Man, and according to the website, each of them needs to play a role in the site to ensure the festival runs smoothly
Giant structure of mechanical woman rising from bed taken at the Burning Man art and music festival in Black Rock City, Nevada
Giant constructed seahorses cascade across desert sands as an estimated 70,000 people enjoy this year’s Burning Man festival
Thousands gather at near a constructed art installation replicated to look like a tree at this year’s Burning Man festival
THE TEN PRINCIPLES OF BURNING MAN
Radical Inclusion
Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.
Gifting
Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.
Decommodification
In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.
Radical Self-reliance
Burning Man encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources.
Radical Self-expression
Radical self-expression arises from the unique gifts of the individual. No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine its content. It is offered as a gift to others. In this spirit, the giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient.
Communal Effort
Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.
Civic Responsibility
We value civil society. Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They must also assume responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, state and federal laws.
Leaving No Trace
Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.
Participation
Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.
Immediacy
Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience.
