A suspicious fire gutted a covered bridge in Cornwall on Saturday.
The bridge spanned Otter Creek between Cornwall and Salisbury.
"During that 60-second phone call (to report the fire) the bridge went from just smoking on the opposite side from us, to entirely engulfed,” Isabel Lower told the Addison Independent.
Firefighters from Cornwall and Salisbury responded to their respective sides of the bridge to battle the fire.
"There were no lightning strikes, and there isn't electricity here, so all I can assume is that it probably was arson, but we've got state police investigators here plus the Addison county investigators, so they're going to go through and check," Fire Chief Chief Dennis Rheaume told local television station WCAX.com.
The 77-foot bridge was built in 1865 overhauled just a few years ago, according to the newspaper.
The fire spread from the bridge to about 15 acres of swamp land.
