Medical personnel work to rescue a man who fell two levels and struck a metal part of a tall structure called the “Nest Tower” at Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada on Sept. 1, 2026. 

BLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada — A Burning Man emergency crew responded at around 6:20 p.m. Tuesday night to extract an injured man from a 55-foot-tall “Nest Tower” structure at the Square One camp. 

According to bystanders who said they witnessed the accident, the man fell two levels from near the top of the 10-level structure and landed on a metal crossbar, appearing to hit his head, ribs and hip.

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The rescue proved complicated. Some emergency responders climbed the tower to stabilize the man, while others cleared the way for a construction vehicle to enter the camp and raise an aerial platform. The man was loaded onto the platform, lowered to the ground and then transferred to a........

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