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PALMETTO, Fla. (WFLA) — First responders were at the scene of a fiery crash on US-41 early Friday morning. The crash happened in Palmetto at about 2:35 a.m. in Palmetto at the intersection with Piney Point Road. An 8 On Your Side camera crew caught sight of smoke coming from a semi-truck that was involved […]
In the Texas Panhandle, lampposts are now melted, power line posts are split in half and homes and properties have been reduced to charred remains. The Smokehouse Creek Fire that broke out on Monday has since extended to 1.1 million acres, firefighters said Thursday, quickly becoming the “largest and most destructive” in state history. The […]
Firefighters putting out a blaze that engulfed a van Monday in a parking lot at Tijuana River Valley Sports Complex found a body partially inside the charred van, authorities reported. The fire at the athletic facility in the 2600 block of Sunset Avenue in southern San Diego erupted about 11 a.m., according to police. Due […]
A $5.93 mobile phone holder seemed like a gamble worth taking for Michelle Zhang. During the past year, she has become a regular shopper on the cut-price ecommerce app Temu, mostly purchasing home and kitchen appliances. “Things on Temu are usually less than half of their prices on Amazon, and you don’t have to purchase […]
On Saturday at the Burners Without Borders camp, a whiteboard was set up to help other Burners. Photo: Courtesy of Lina Lyte Plioplyte In 20 years of being a journalist who goes to Burning Man, I have studiously avoided writing about it. Most “insider” accounts of the festival sound as tedious as someone describing a […]
After days of rain and mud, blocked exits and postponed parties, the last of Burning Man’s crowds trudged out of the Nevada desert on Wednesday morning. The “moop” remained. That is Burning Man argot for rubbish, short for “matter out of place”: a galaxy of jetsam scattered across the muddy alkali flats, after torrential rains […]
RENO, Nev. — The rain has passed, and the temple has burned. Now, as Burning Man slowly empties, it’s time to clean up. Burning Man organizers have three weeks to clean up the sprawling stretch of public land in the Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada, but a summer storm that left tens of thousands […]
CNN — Thousands of Burning Man attendees
Burning Man partygoers exit after storm leaves thousands stranded Monsoon rains caused flash flooding at Nevada’s annual Burning Man Festival, turning the usually dry, desert landscape into a muddy mess. Organizers said that conditions were improving, and most attendees would depart by noon on Monday. BLACK ROCK CITY, Nev. – After a week of sloshing […]
The news that thousands of Burning Man festivalgoers were told to conserve food and water after torrential rains left them trapped by impassable mud in the Nevada desert led some to chortle about a “Lord of the Flies” scenario for the annual gathering popular with tech lords and moguls. Alas, I have to spoil the […]