re: PSA: Maybe not attempt "hot potting" in Yellowstone National Park

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Authorities have identified the man whose foot was found floating in a Yellowstone National Park hot spring three months ago, the park said Thursday.

Il Hun Ro, 70, of Los Angeles, died in the incident on the morning of July 31, the National Park Service said in a statement.

His foot in a shoe was found floating in the hot spring in Wyoming on Aug. 16.

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More than 20 people are known to have died in thermal features in Yellowstone since 1890, park officials have said.

Last year, two people were injured in hot springs there, one of them a 20-year-old woman who was seriously burned after she went into Maiden’s Grave Spring to save her dog. The dog was pulled out but later died.

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