According to the New York Post, a viral video captured a man and a woman defying legal restrictions and common sense. They ventured off a park boardwalk at Silex Spring on the Fountain Paint Pot Nature Trail in Wyoming.
Then the couple descends a grassy slope and approaches the hydrothermal pool, which reaches temperatures of 174 degrees.
In the video, the woman crouches at the spring's edge, rolls up her sleeves, and cautiously immerses her right hand and the tip of her shoe into the scalding water.
While she holds her companion's hand firmly with her left hand. She immediately realizes her mistake.
After, she stands back up, letting out piercing screams, screaming: “It’s hot! It’s very hot!”
According to the news outlet Buckrail, officials with Yellowstone National Park told that they are currently investigating the Instagram video.
According to the reports that over 20 people have lost their lives due to burns sustained from entering or falling into Yellowstone's hot springs. The authorities emphasize the strict prohibition from touching, swimming or soaking in hot springs.
The National Park Service’s Yellowstone safety page warns, “Water in hot springs can cause severe or fatal burns, and scalding water underlies most of the thin, breakable crust around hot springs,”
Watching the video below:
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