Dozens join lawsuit against Xcel in wake of Marshall Fire investigation conclusion

BOULDER COUNTY — Just days after Boulder County Sheriff’s Office investigators went public with their determination that an “unmoored” Xcel Energy Inc. powerline was likely a partial contributor to the start of the massively destructive Marshall Fire in late December 2021, a group of more than two dozen Boulder County homeowners, renters and business operators have joined in a lawsuit that accuses the utility of negligence. 

“Because of Xcel’s corporate policy of putting profits over public safety,” the complaint said, “plaintiffs and others like them have had their homes, businesses, ranches and farms damaged and destroyed, lost income, money and…