SEATTLE — The geysers at Yellowstone National Park have landed a Seattle television station in hot water.
KING-TV's "Evening Magazine" was fined $150 and placed on two years probation by the park after host John Curley tried to cook raw chicken in a hole near the park's geysers.
Curley and his producer were re-enacting a story they had heard about early tour guides showing off the geysers' heat by cooking meat for visitors, said Mark Erskine, executive producer of local programing.
Park officials who heard about the Feb. 12 segment reprimanded the show for disturbing mineral deposits and stepping off trails near steaming geysers.
"It was an error in judgment," Erskine said. "He probably should have thought a little and realized that's why they stopped doing it."
"Evening Magazine" broadcast an apology last week, and the show's Web site features a correction.