GALVESTON — The stacks of broken lumber piled up against the back fence in Letricia Banuelos’ yard make it too dangerous for her three young children to play in the area without supervision.

The yard was a very different place a week ago, Banuelos said, with her daughter, Makayle, 9, leading a band of neighborhood children on daily excursions to their favorite spot to play — a tree house shaped like a pirate ship.

But on April 16, contractors working for CenterPoint Energy destroyed the tree house, telling Banuelos it was too close to the power lines that run along Heards Lane.

It never caught CenterPoint’s attention until Banuelos called the company to ask them to trim some trees growing close to a transformer behind her neighbor’s fence. Crews didn’t touch those trees, she said.

The crew’s foreman did tell her she needed to remove the tree house, but she refused, Banuelos said.

The family wants CenterPoint to rebuild what it destroyed, but officials have not returned her calls, she said.