“I was surprised he didn’t start splashing in it.”Īuthorities determined that someone broke into a storage room where chemicals are kept at the park’s swimming pool and stole some muriatic acid. “The bottom of the slide, where it was, there was a good amount of it collected there,” she said. The acid left mostly superficial blisters and swelling on her children’s skin, Thielen said, but it could have been much worse. That was when I knew this liquid that they were around wasn’t water.” “I didn’t really think much of it, and then, my baby, who is one, just started crying. I just assumed it was rainwater,” their mother, Ashley Thielen, told Western Mass News in Springfield. I didn’t notice that there was liquid to collect at the bottom of the slide. At about the same time, firefighters and emergency medical technicians went to a nearby home for a report of two children with burns who had just left the park. Police and firefighters responded to Bliss Park in Longmeadow Sunday morning for a report of a suspicious substance on the playground equipment, the fire department posted on social media. (AP) - Two children suffered what were described as “burn-like injuries” after playing on slides that had been doused with acid at a Massachusetts park, authorities said.
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