The Vancouver Sun reports in its Friday edition that the insurer for the Village of Lytton and the Thompson-Nicola Regional District is suing Canada's two national railways and Transport Canada, alleging it was negligent to let trains pass through the town during the deadly 2021 heat dome, before the community was razed by wildfire. A Canadian Press dispatch to The Sun quotes a notice of claim saying that a train passed through the village 18 minutes before the first report of a fire near the tracks that destroyed 90 per cent of the town's buildings and scorched 837 square kilometres of land. In the claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court on June 16, lawyers allege CN and CP continued to operate in late June, 2021, despite record-setting heat and an extreme wildfire danger. The claim says the railways failed to ensure the train's braking and other systems were safe, that they did not use reasonable fire prevention methods, and failed to watch for smoke or fire along the tracks. It seeks general and special damages and costs related to everything from the emergency response to the investigation of the fire's cause and the rebuilding of the village. The lawsuit was filed by the Municipal Insurance Association of B.C.