 The homeowner said, quote, the skin had peeled off my palms like the skin from an onion, and it looked like raw hamburger underneath. That was Robert Woolley commenting on his experience. As hot as it is during the nationwide heat wave in the U.S., sidewalks can be much hotter. Half the burn unit patients at one Las Vegas hospital are victims of pavement burns. It was one of those, help, I've fallen and I can't get up. I could not get up. The skin had peeled off my palms like the skin from an onion, and it looked like raw hamburger underneath. So I couldn't use my hands anymore.