Anger as climbing frame set on fire
FAMILY ‘DEVASTATED’ FOLLOWING BLAZE
A WOODMANSEY mum has said her family was left devastated after the village play area was set on fire on Monday night.
Firefighters were called to the park in King Street at 11.25pm after reports that the wooden climbing frame, which was only added to the park in the past 18 months after a campaign by local parents and children, had been set on fire.
Mum Aimee Fellows, 30, said she would usually visit the park with her partner Michael Dixon, 31, and their children Jacob Dixon, five, and Edie Dixon, two, every day after school. “It’s horrendous,” she said.
“It’s really new as well, that park.
It’s only recently been done and I was speaking to somebody today who said they had struggled to get the funding for it, and now it’s just completely ruined.
“There’s not that much there for smaller children and our daughter is two and that was one of the main things she liked to go on.”
Beverley child minder Pascale Towse, who visited the King Street park on Tuesday morning with two fellow childminders, said it was “awful” to see the state that the play area had been left in.
The play area had recently been updated with the new climbing frames that had been specially designed by local parents and their children who had put their “heart and soul and months of planning” into the park.
Mrs Towse said: “It’s awful, really awful. There’s just no need.
“When we got there it was all black and looked like it had been done fairly recently .
“Nothing had been put round it and there were other kids trying to climb on it and there were black bits all over the park.”
She blasted the “disgusting behaviour” of those who may have caused the fire on the new climbing frame.
A spokesman from Humberside Fire and Rescue Service said: “We were called by a member of the public and attended the park at 11.25pm.
“It was a wooden climbing frame involved and one crew was sent to put the fire out with two hose reels in use.”