The Little Rock Fire Department is investigating a Friday night fire that melted playground equipment at an elementary school.
Capt. Randy Hickmon of the Little Rock Fire Department said firefighters were called about 6 p.m. Friday to Franklin Elementary School, 1701 S. Harrison St., where they found playground equipment on fire. Hickmon said it took about 30 minutes to extinguish the fire.
Investigators will look at video footage from cameras near the school to see what might have caused the fire, Hickmon said.
The new school year begins Aug. 17. Baker Kurrus, the superintendent of the Little Rock School District, said Saturday that the district will make sure the children have something to play on, but it likely won’t be as nice as the equipment that was destroyed by the fire. No definitive plans to replace the equipment had been made Saturday.
It will cost a lot of money to replace the equipment, Kurrus said, and he hopes someone will come forward with information about what happened.
“I don’t know why somebody would do this,” Kurrus said.