We all know that there can be risks when you don’t wear shoes outside. When it comes to playing outside, especially in the summer and in the water, there’s nothing to be worried about, right? Actually, that couldn’t be more wrong.

Doctors say that they actually treat more heat burn injuries on feet in the summer than any other time. In June, a Virginia man shared his story with other beach goers about the dangers of going barefoot.

He says he was walking on hot concrete for less than 10 seconds when his summer nightmare began. He says he never felt anything that hot, and had to be admitted to the hospital with second-degree burns.

It isn’t just pavement that can be dangerous though. One father and his toddler son learned the hard way when the Seattle father took his kids to a local park to play on a splash pad.

He says everything was going fine for the first 15 minutes, and then he heard his one and a half year old son screaming. He ran over to him thinking that he had fallen, but he was inconsolable.

The father says he picked up his son and started drying him off. When he got to his feet he realized something was wrong. He could feel the heat coming off of them and the skin on the bottom looked like it had been melted on both feet.

Andrew Sechrist says it wasn’t the concrete that burned little Jackson’s feet though. It was a metal grate that was close to the splash pad. The temperature on the grate was tested about the same time of day Jackson was there and it registered a whopping 130 degrees Fahrenheit.

Sechrist says just getting his hand near the grate he couldn’t keep it there for half a second, and his son walked all the way across it. Jackson was transferred to the burn unit of the hospital where he was treated for second-degree burns.

“It was an extremely difficult 24 hours for a 17-month old kid,” said Sechrist. “My whole purpose of sharing this story is to get the world out to other parents so this doesn’t happen to anyone else.”

Be sure to share this story with your family and friends so they can take precautions to ensure this doesn’t happen to them or their children.