1.   Fire Chief Bill Bamattre said officials were working to determine whether a snapped cable caused the accident.

2.   Get one that is shorter than six feet, because too-long cables can sometimes cause data errors.

3.   It is unknown if the snapped cable caused the accident or if another problem led to the cable breaking, park spokeswoman Kristi Vonne said.

4.   Students thought that wedging logs from the second stack into the first would strengthen it and that not using cables would cause the fire to burn quicker.

5.   Pepco said a faulty cable caused an underground fire.

6.   Copper cables would only cause bottlenecks if they are not replaced.

7.   Some deaths resulted from electric shocks caused by cables lying in water on the streets, Simdi said.