"What a way to go.On July 20, 1981, David Allen Kirwan, 24, of La Canada, Calif., and his friend Ronald Ratliff, 25, of Thousand Oaks, parked their truck at Yellowstone's Fountain Paint Pot parking lot early in the afternoon.While the two young men looked at the hot springs, Ratliff's dog, "Moosie," a large mastiff or great dane, escaped from the truck and jumped into the nearby Celestine Pool, a hot spring found to be 202 degrees Fahrenheit(93oC).The dog began yelping, so Kirwan and Ratliff rushed to the spring.A bystander, seeing that Kirwan was preparing to enter the water, shouted "Don't go in there."
"Like hell I won't," Kirwan yelled back before taking two steps into the pool, then diving headfirst into the water.He swam to the dog and tried to take it to shore but soon gave up and tried to climb out.
Ratliff, pulling Kirwan from the spring, suffered second degree burns on his own feet.Another visitor, Earl Welsh, took Kirwan's hand; the skin already was peeling from his body.He appeared to be blind, his eyes totally white.Another man ran up to remove Kirwan's shoes; the skin came off with them. "Don't do that," Welsh said, and Kirwan, exhausted, said, "It doesn't matter." With third degree burns over 100 percent of his body, it didn't. The next day he was dead"
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