Images captured by firefighters showed the massive jungle gym going up in flames outside Maree Garnett Farring Elementary/Middle School on Saturday, and school police would ultimately reveal the alleged arsonists were a 12- and a 13-year-old.
“That is very shocking. That really… that really… yes, that was extremely shocking,” said BCPS Regional Manager Terri Lesesane. “I thought initially it was like some teenagers or someone not from the neighborhood finding an opportunity to just… it was very disheartening that it was our own children that destroyed it, and they now all have to suffer.”
In a strange twist of irony, someone torched the same school’s playground back in 2018, and it had to be rebuilt the following year…