A total of 443 plaintiffs name two people in court documents for a fire they claim sparked the 2013 Dunalley firestorm that destroyed 93 homes and 186 buildings.
The plaintiffs claim that between December 28 and 31, work was done in the area around the tree stump, and at the same time the fire continued within the tree stump and its roots as a smouldering burn.
It took until January 18 for the Forcett fire to be fully contained, and by that stage it had burnt about 25,000 hectares, with a perimeter of almost 310 kilometres.
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