A Cameron County playground is blocked with caution tape after a wall collapsed on the corner of the property.

We have more on the danger kids could have faced and what’s being done now.

It’s been a beautiful day to be outside, but some kids in Emporium can’t use their favorite playground.

The Third Street playground is locked after Cameron County recreation director Holly Maginell says a wall on an adjoining building collapsed more than a week ago.

“There were a lot of cinder blocks that were knocked through. There were some pieces of piping and metal pieces,” says Manginell.

“That could have been dangerous?” we asked. “Absolutely, very dangerous if someone was playing there, but thankfully it happened at nighttime,” says Manginell.

“We used it a week before,” says St. Mark’s Community Day Care Center co-director Heather Priest.

That nearby day care likes to get the kids out for a couple hours to play, but Priest says they’re now using a different playground that’s further away.

“We were afraid that somebody would get injured,” says Priest.

The blocks tumbled onto the grass by a basketball court sometime late Saturday, Apr. 2, into the next day, officials said.

“That was the first thing I had asked was if anyone had gotten hurt. There wasn’t anything in there. Supposedly it was a result of wind,” says borough manager/zoning officer Don Reed.

Building owner Ed Lakes wasn’t home when we stopped by, but a woman there said the property was cleaned up on Sunday.

“He had gotten permission I believe from the county to be able to go onto the property and he had cleaned it up over the weekend,” says Reed.

Reed says someone will have to check if the building is structurally sound.

“We are gonna go through it and find out what his intent is to do with the building,” says Reed.

“I hope they clean it up and let us use it in the next couple weeks,” says Priest.

Manginell says even though things are cleaned up, they need to check and make sure everything is safe for the kids before it’s re-opened.