The Burning Man Festival happens annually over the weekend before Labor Day in Black Rock City in northwestern Nevada. It is the celebration of community, art, self-expression and self-reliance, and culminates into the symbolic burning of a giant 40-foot wooden effigy, often referred to as the Man.
This year, amidst the ongoing Burning Man Festival, a piece of news emerged on the internet that Black Rock City is under lockdown and has even been declared a national emergency as people present there are suffering from a mysterious viral disease, that is spreading rapidly and resulting in “boils, vomiting, and coughing up coagulated blood.”
Not only that, rumors arose that the Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA has been deployed to the Black Rock City to shut down the Burning Man Festival and lock down the entire place, with over 73,000 people stranded inside.
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However, the news has turned out to be fake. Neither is there a mysterious viral disease nor has FEMA been sent to the Burning Man Festival.
Instead, NBC reported that visitors there are trapped due to poor weather conditions, such as heavy rains, storms, and flash floods. Additionally, the alleged announcement of a "national emergency" has also turned out to be false.
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