Arson at Burning Man

When Steve was up at 3 a.m. photographing the lunar eclipse at Burning Man, one of his shots included an apparent arson-in-progress. He later heard the accused is said to have set the Man on fire before the scheduled Saturday night burn as a protest against all the rules that have developed as the event has gone from a handful of guys with a bonfire on a California beach, to 40,000 people gathering in Nevada’s Black Rock desert. Steve says the original structure was almost entirely consumed, and that volunteers erected a new one to enable the Burn to happen, with fireworks, on schedule on Saturday.