Pineridge E. S. Playground and the Creek Fire
A fellow educator friend of mine and I went back up into the Creek Fire area near Shaver Lake. Pineridge Elementary School is at the top of four lanes on Highway 168. The school was saved, but the playground was right next to the road and the fire jumped over it and burned the vegetation bordering the school playground. It broke my heart to see their play structure looking like this. They're doing distance learning and will be coming back to their recess fun looking like this.
To the right of where I took this picture was a chain link fence bordering the parking lot. The kids had put up dozens of signs thanking the fire fighters for saving their school. I will be putting up that picture soon. It was really emotional to me to see the destruction right next to such positive messages. It could have been worse.
Pineridge E. S. Playground and the Creek Fire
A fellow educator friend of mine and I went back up into the Creek Fire area near Shaver Lake. Pineridge Elementary School is at the top of four lanes on Highway 168. The school was saved, but the playground was right next to the road and the fire jumped over it and burned the vegetation bordering the school playground. It broke my heart to see their play structure looking like this. They're doing distance learning and will be coming back to their recess fun looking like this.
To the right of where I took this picture was a chain link fence bordering the parking lot. The kids had put up dozens of signs thanking the fire fighters for saving their school. I will be putting up that picture soon. It was really emotional to me to see the destruction right next to such positive messages. It could have been worse.