Yellowstone worker suffers burns near Old Faithful geyser

A Rhode Island pistillate suffered important burns adjacent the Old Faithful geyser successful Yellowstone National Park connected Thursday morning, according to parkland officials.

According to a press release from the park, the 19-year-old pistillate is simply a concessions worker astatine Yellowstone. She received archetypal attraction from rangers for 2nd and third-degree burns connected 5% of her body.

The pistillate was taken by ambulance to West Yellowstone and past life-flighted to the Burn Center astatine East Idaho Regional Medical Center.

The incidental is nether investigation, and nary further details were released.

Officials did not supply an update connected the woman's condition.

The merchandise said the incidental was the archetypal important wounded successful a thermal country successful 2021. It marked the archetypal wounded successful a thermal country since October erstwhile a 3-year-old suffered second-degree burns. The past fatal incidental astatine a thermal country successful the parkland occurred successful 2016.

Park officials reminded visitors to ever stay connected boardwalks and trails and workout utmost caution astir thermal features.

"The crushed successful hydrothermal areas is fragile and thin, and determination is scalding h2o conscionable beneath the surface," the merchandise read. "Everyone indispensable ever stay connected boardwalks and trails and workout utmost caution astir thermal features."

This communicative was primitively published by Scripps presumption KBZK successful Billings, Montana.