04 Sep A Festival-Goer Who Ran Into The Flames At Burning Man Festival Has Died

The annual Burning Man festival attracts thousands of revellers over the Labor Day weekend. The festival, which takes place in Black Rock Desert in Nevada, is centered on spiritual enlightenment with the burning man symbolising re-birth. Every year, a wooden man is burned on the Saturday night of the event, but this year there was a sinister twist that nobody expected…

On Saturday night, the 50 feet wooden effigy was set ablaze, as planned. More than 50,000 festival-goers crowded around to view the ritual, but horrifyingly, as the flames rose higher and higher, a man ran from the crowd and in to the fire, managing to successfully dodge the thick layer of security.

The man, who has now been named as 41-year-old Aaron Mitchell, managed to evade being captured by the heavy security and plunged into the intense heat at around 10:30pm. Firefighters immediately ran to his aid and managed to drag him from the fire. He was airlifted to the UC Davis hospital burn centre in California, where he tragically died on Sunday.

Mitchell, who grew up in McAlester, Oklahoma, but was living in Switzerland at the time of his death, was attending Burning Man festival for the first time. His parents had last seen their son on August 1, before he attended a solar eclipse festival in Oregon.

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