Dive summary:

• Bridge construction work in August and the contractors doing it are being blamed in a lawsuit for a wildfire that destroyed more than 60 homes and burned through 23,500 acres in Washington state.
• A dozen homeowners are charging that Conway Construction Co. of Ridgefield and Rainier Steel Inc. of Auburn knew or should have known that the way they were working posed a fire risk. The companies' crews were replacing a bridge deck on state Route 10 about 75 miles from Seattle when the fire started.
• The lawyer for the homeowners says he will add the state to the suit as a defendant. The Department of Natural Resources has not issued a finding about the fire's cause yet.

From the article:

Small contractors replacing the deck on a small bridge last August may have started a big fire in the dry hills of eastern Washington state. No one was killed, but property damage costs are steep and liability insurers could face big claims. ...