The youngest Burner ever made an exodus from the playa that will go down as one of the most talked-about.
A newborn baby girl left Burning Man by helicopter to the Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada on Sept. 27, according to Royal Ambulance, the official medical provider for the annual cultural spectacle.
Baby Aurora was a surprise to her parents, both in their 30s and from Salt Lake City, the newborn's aunt Lacey Paxman wrote on a GoFundMe page set to help with the unexpected medical and baby expenses.
The mother Kayla Thompson and the baby, who weighed 3 pounds, 9.6 oz. and was 16.5 inches long, will stay in the NICU until she is strong enough to be welcomed home, the GoFundMe page states.
"Had I known, that's absolutely the last place on this planet I would have been," father Kasey Thompson told the Los Angeles Times.
