A $250,000 donation from the Las Vegas Raiders helped cover the costs of repairing a high school football field in Concord that was damaged in a fire in August, school officials announced Thursday.

The football field at Mt. Diablo High School at 2450 Grant St. had newly installed synthetic turf that was damaged in a fire reported on Aug. 24. Concord police investigators found surveillance footage showing several people, possibly juveniles, who set off fireworks on the field the night before.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.