Thielen and her kids were the first ones at the playground around 8:15 a.m. Sunday. The mom recalled noticing liquid collected at the bottom of a slide, but she let her little ones play.

You — and your child — are probably making a mistake on the playground slide. “My biggest tip for slide safety is to not go down it with your child,” Olivia Reyes, a developmental physical ...

But playground slides and other sources of heavy static (like balloons) can still zap an implant and require it to be reprogrammed, which costs up to $1,000. The child, meanwhile, must go hours or ...

"We just had some, really just residential playground equipment out here -- swing set and slides -- and we got to talking about how we'd like to update it and improve it and it kind of snowballed ...

Plastic slides can get up to 200 degrees when exposed to sunlight and burn kids. Slide color doesn’t change the temperature that much, so be sure to test playground equipment.

Two children suffered “burn-like injuries” after acid was poured on three slides at a Massachusetts playground, authorities said. Fire and police departments in Longmeadow, just south of ...