Woman Receives Thermal Burns From Yellowstone Hot Spring While Retrieving Dog

Above, a Yellowstone National Park hot spring. Phto by armand Vaquer.

Sometimes it is just not worth bringing pets along while on vacation.

A woman trying to retrieve her dog received thermal burns from a Yellowstone National Park hot spring.

According to ABC 4 News:

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK (ABC4) – A 20-year-old woman is suffered thermal burns after attempting to retrieve her dog from a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park Monday afternoon.

Park officials said the incident occurred in the area of Fountain Flat Drive, south of Madison Junction.

The woman’s dog reportedly jumped out of the car after the woman and her father stepped out to look around. When the dog ran into Maiden’s Grave Spring, the woman followed suit to retrieve the dog, Yellowstone National Park said in a Facebook post.

The woman’s father then pulled her and the dog out then drove to West Yellowstone, Montana for help.

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