UPDATE:

Police ID chemical that burned children at Lapeer playground

LAPEER, MI - A substance on a playground slide at a city park left two kids with burns on Thursday.

The Lapeer Police Department was called at 10:33 a.m. on Aug. 2 by staff from McLaren-Lapeer staff and told the hospital was treating a 1-year-old boy and 14-year-old girl for burns caused by an unknown substance, according to a statement.

Investigators later determined that the boy encountered the substance while going down a slide at Cramton Park on Genesee Street.

After the 1-year-old boy was injured going through the substance on the slide, the 14-year-old then tried to help the toddler and she was burned when the substance transferred to her, police said.

Police responded to the area and located an unknown substance on the slide at the park, according to the statement. Samples were taken and sent to a lab to be tested for identification.

The boy was transferred to the Hurley Medical Center burn unit for further treatment, while the girl was treated in Lapeer, the statement said.

All playground equipment at Cramton Park and other city parks were checked, cleaned and no other foreign substances were found, according to police.

Investigators said the playground equipment where the incident took place will remain closed.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call 810-664-0833.