Officials have identified the partial foot discovered in one of Yellowstone's deepest hot springs - CNN

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Yellowstone National Park officials person identified the idiosyncratic whose ft was recovered floating successful 1 of the park’s deepest blistery springs successful August.

Los Angeles nonmigratory Il Hun Ro, 70, was identified “in the past 3 weeks” utilizing DNA analysis, the park said successful a quality merchandise Thursday, and his household has been notified.

“The probe determined, to the champion of our knowledge, that an unwitnessed incidental involving 1 idiosyncratic happened connected the greeting of July 31, 2022, astatine Abyss Pool, and nary foul play occurred,” parkland officials said. “Based connected a deficiency of evidence, the circumstances surrounding the decease of Ro stay unknown.”

An worker archetypal discovered the partial ft successful a footwear floating successful the thermal pool, located successful the West Thumb Geyser Basin successful the confederate portion of the park.

The Abyss Pool has a extent of up to 53 feet, according to the National Park Service. It has a somesthesia of astir 140 degrees Fahrenheit.

Water successful these blistery springs tin “severely burn” visitors, the work warns connected its website.

This is not the archetypal fatality successful 1 of the Yellowstone’s thermal pools, according to information listed connected the park’s website. In August 2000, a idiosyncratic died aft falling into a blistery spring; and successful June 2016, a antheral strayed from a designated way and slipped and fell into a antithetic blistery spring.