Women Burning Man - A 29-year-old woman died at the annual Burning Man celebration Thursday, after falling under a bus loaded with event participants, authorities and festival organizers said.
The women burning man accident victim was identified by the Pershing County authorities as Alicia Louise Cipicchio of Jackson, Wyoming, KTLA 5. She was said to have worked at a fine art gallery and had studied art at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Event co-founder Marian Goodell called the women burning man incident "a terrible accident" in a statement released by email Friday.
"This is a terrible accident," said Goodell. "Our thoughts and prayers are with her family, friends and campmates. Black Rock Rangers and Emergency Services Department staff are providing support to those affected."
The Pershing County Sheriff's Office together with the event organizers, are working on the women burning man case to determine how Cipicchio fell from the bus in the first place.
Details about the women burning man incident were very limited and no additional informations were provided.
This isn't the first women burning man accident to ever happen. Another young lady was also killed at the festival in 2003 after she fell from an "art car" at the event and was run over by the vehicle. The victim was identified as 21-year-old San Francisco art student Katherine Lampman, the San Francisco Chronicle has learned.
The annual week-long festival participated by thousands of free-thinkers, is held in late summer in Nevada's Black Rock Dessert. In its website, it describes itself as an "experiment in temporary community dedicated to radical self-expression and radical self-reliance."
Prior the women burning man accident, the festival best known for the burning of a gigantic human effigy, had already kicked off to a precarious start when the ground of the Black Rock was turned by the heavy rains into a muddy mess, according to KTVU.
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