It's been a difficult start to Burning Man, which takes place in the Nevada desert near Gerlach. First, torrential rain and mud slowed entrance to the site, then this morning a woman was struck and killed by a bus. The woman has been identified as 29-year-old Alicia Cipicchio from Jackson, Wyoming. she was run over by the "Shagadelica" bus.
This continues the year's frightening trend of deaths at festivals:
• Earlier this month, three people died at the Veld Music Festival in Toronto.
• In July, a fan was found dead in his tent at the Pemberton Music Festival in British Columbia.
• Also in July, a burner at Element 11 in Utah ran into a massive effigy bonfire and died.
• In June, three deaths were connected to Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas.s
