PARK CITY, UTAH — A family’s summer vacation went horribly awry after a day at the theme park turned into a hellish nightmare.
Kenny Edwards and his son suffered severe burns while on a slide at Utah’s Olympic Park, and believe the park’s management is not giving riders enough warning about the slide’s dangers, according to a Facebook page the family set up about their ordeal.
On July 3, Edwards and his 4-year-old son were going down the Alpine slide when the sled they were on stopped at a turn and sent them tumbling onto the hot metal.
Edwards grabbed the edge of the hot slide and managed to maneuver his son into his lap, but didn’t realize the severity of his burns until the boy pointed them out to him.
The skin on his hands had peeled off, and the flesh underneath was red and raw.
Edwards got off the slide and flagged down another rider to help bring his son down, reports KUTV.
The kind stranger delivered the severely injured boy to his waiting mother.
The Texas father of two eventually made it down the slide on the defective sled, with third-degree burns all over his body.
The hot metal cooked parts of his leg, elbow and almost 90 percent of his backside.
Riders are told beforehand not to touch the hot slide, but aren’t informed that doing so could result in severe injuries.
The family is now seeking to get the park to give more explicit warnings about the slide, especially as visitors are required to sign waivers assuming responsibility for any injury or death.