[Geysers] 6/12 Boy burned at Yellowstone released from Utah hospital

[V]

Here's an update!  I'm arriving next week with 
about 10 families... not the news I wanted to 
read yesterday!  I forwarded it to my group as 
a reminder.  Very sad.  ~ Vicky 


Boy burned at Yellowstone released from Utah hospital

By The Associated Press Monday, June 12, 2006

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) -- A 6-year-old 
boy who was burned after he slipped and fell into water from 
a geyser in the Old Faithful area on Saturday has been treated 
and released from the burn center at the University of Utah 
Hospital in Salt Lake City.

Barbara Schuster, a registered nurse at the burn center, said 
Monday that she couldn't release any information about the 
extent of the boy's injuries.

However, Schuster said, "it is good news" that the boy was 
treated and released to go home. She said he wasn't sent 
to any other medical center.

The boy, of South Jordan, Utah, slipped on a wet boardwalk 
and fell into water from a recently erupted geyser at about 
6 p.m. Saturday.

The boy's arms and legs were burned in the fall, and he was
flown to the Utah burn center, park officials said.

It is National Park Service policy not to release the identities 
of juvenile accident victims, according to the agency.

In October, another 6-year-old boy was severely burned 
when he tripped and fell into a hot spring in the park while 
walking off a trail with his father.


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