Overnight fire at Woodville playground
Richmond firefighters arrived around 4 a.m. today at Woodville Elementary School, in the 2000 block of North 28th Street and found one of the school’s playground’s in flames. [...] It will not be known until mid-week, at the earliest, if the entire playground equipment will need to be replaced.
The playground at George Mason Elementary School burned in June of 2009. W.E. Singleton, a retired real estate investor and local philanthropist, helped cover the cost of the replacement.
Later editions of the story also mentioned a third fire in the area – 2010 Fairfield Court fire. It sounds like that one was caused by kids playing with fire. It’s kind of scary how flammable these new playgrounds are.
[...] new year for students at one Richmond school. The playground at Woodville Elementary, which was suspiciously burned to the ground two days before the start of school, is now cleaned up and ready for [...]