Woman suffers burns while trying to rescue her dog from hot spring at Yellowstone

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FILE - Visitors are seen astatine Grand Prismatic Spring successful Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming connected May 1, 2021. A survey by national and assemblage researchers says mean parkland temperatures successful caller decades were apt the warmest of the past 800,000 years. (AP Photo/Iris Samuels)

Posted at 5:27 PM, Oct 06, 2021

and past updated 2021-10-06 18:27:20-04

Park officials said a Washington pistillate suffered thermal burns erstwhile entering a blistery outpouring astatine Yellowstone National Park to rescue her dog.

According to a news release, officials said the pistillate suffered burns from her shoulders to her feet portion visiting the parkland Monday.

Park officials said the 20-year-old and her begetter were visiting the parkland and got retired of their conveyance to look around, and that's erstwhile their canine got retired and jumped into Maiden's Grave Spring adjacent the Firehole River.

Officials said her begetter pulled her retired and drove the enactment to West Yellowstone, Montana.

Park officials said the canine passed away.

Officials said this marks the second woman to beryllium burned successful caller weeks erstwhile successful September, a parkland concessions worker suffered second-and third-degree burns to 5% of her assemblage adjacent Old Faithful Geyser.

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