Students, officials dismayed after Nixon Elementary playground burned during suspicious blaze in Hermosa

“My 5-year-old told me yesterday, ‘Papi, the slide got burned down and I can’t go down the slide anymore,’” Torres said. “It hurts me as a father. It’s just a slide to anybody else but to me, it’s my son not being able to go down the slide that he worked hard for to have recess.”