YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK (NMB) – A 19-year-old woman from Rhode Island suffered significant thermal burns in Yellowstone National Park on Thursday morning.
The concessions worker suffered second and third degree burns to five percent of her body and was taken by ambulance to West Yellowtone and life-flighted to a burn center in Idaho.
The incident is under investigation.
This is the first significant injury in a thermal area in 2021.
The ground in hydrothermal areas is fragile and thin, and there is scalding water just below the surface. Everyone must always remain on boardwalks and trails and exercise extreme caution around thermal features.
