Dominic Tinio started cleaning up after the Burners in 2000. He has a month to clean up after the festival before the Bureau of Land Management inspects the site.

Black Rock City’s around 3,600 acres—3,600 football fields, we’ll say. 157 million square feet. So that’s a lot of territory to cover. But we cover it. I’m going to have somewhere between 175 and 200 people out here doing a line sweep. Everybody lines up and we, block for block, walk the desert.