She shouldn’t be allowed back into that park, though they probably don’t keep a list of visitors. And she better not be thinking of suing anybody. T’was her own fault.
Will they be euthanizing this particular thermal feature when their investigation is complete?
There’s a park called Lassen volcanoes national Park just east of Redding and I’ve spent many a happy day sitting in thermal Fiissures where are you follow the fumerole and it forms a hot river and you keep walking down river until it gets down to about 110° and then you jump in
All of these are nowhere near a road and have no fences around them and nothing else to stop you
Law breaker and stupid.
She is DOOMED.
It might not make a difference. Even though we don't know the extent of her injuries, she might not survive this fall into a thermal "feature". People die from their burns or have extensive burn injuries. Water can reach as high as 250 degrees. These are not things to trifle with. But death from cold water drownings exceed hot water burnings by far.
Factoid (figures are from 2014): Since 1872 when the park opened, 100 people have died from drowning in Yellowstone's frigid lakes, some of the coldest in the country. During the same period, the thermal pools and geysers have taken 19 people over the decades. And surprisingly, only 5 people have died from bear attacks.
Not surprisingly, nowadays people are the biggest threat to life and limb in Yellowstone. Plain old auto accidents occur quite often and take lives unnecessarily.