Nearly three months after a Balch Springs grass fire damaged or destroyed more than two dozen homes -- the insurance company for three homeowners is suing the owner of the vacant lot where the fire started.
The lot was heavily overgrown with dry grass and weeds when one of the lawn mowers brought in to bring it into code caused a spark which ignited the fire.
Twenty-six homes caught fire and nine of them were destroyed.
The estimate of damages is about $6 million.
Now, the insurance company for three of those homeowners has filed a lawsuit against Sikka Investments, the owner of the 67-acre lot.
The Dallas Morning News reports Sikka was given two requests from Balch Springs code enforcement to mow the grass and then the company was cited. Only then did the lawn mowing crew appear the day the fire started.
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