Source: https://www.heraldnet.com/, July 14, 2022
By: Ellen Dennis

An overheated drill may have sparked a four-alarm inferno that leveled an apartment building being built on Everett’s waterfront three years ago and caused an estimated $25 million in damages.

The allegation about what touched off the July 16, 2020 fire that destroyed the four-story Waterfront Place Apartments, 1300 West Marine View Drive, is included in a recent lawsuit by the Port of Everett’s insurance company. Flames also damaged surrounding buildings, threatened homes on a nearby hillside and sparked fires hundreds of feet away. A plume of smoke was visible from miles around. Dozens of firefighters responded from all over Snohomish County, sending at least 53 vehicles — engines, ladder trucks, ambulances, and so on — to combat the flames. Read more.