The Blackout of 2003: By the Numbers

1 million: Number of Ohio customers FirstEnergy says lost electrical power around 4:11 p.m., Aug. 14

597: Total number of calls the Cleveland Fire Department received in the 24 hours following the blackout

150: Average number of calls the Cleveland Fire Department receives in a 24-hour period

100: Approximate number of high-rise buildings stretching from Lakewood's Gold Coast to Shaker Square that firefighters checked to ensure people were not trapped inside elevators

9:30 p.m.: Time fire department officials say they rescued the last person trapped in a downtown elevator:

$4: Price allegedly charged by a Bay Village store for a half-gallon of water

45: Number of rubbish and Dumpster fires Cleveland firefighters extinguished during the blackout

5:18 p.m.: First rubbish fire reported

1,500: Pounds of ice that Blue Point Grille brought in to preserve its seafood and provide ice for the following day

600: Tons of ice sold by Olmsted Ice the week of the blackout

300: Tons of ice sold by Olmsted Ice in a typical summer week

13: Number of structural fires in Cleveland the night of the blackout

2: Number of those fires started by candles

$1,500: Estimated monetary damage caused by those candles

$0: Cost of an ice-cream cone at Honey Hut Ice Cream in Parma by 8 p.m. on Aug. 14

9 p.m.: Time that Honey Hut stand ran out of ice cream

12: Number of malicious false alarms, according to fire department reports

120: Number of unintentional false alarms caused by the blackout

6:30 p.m.: Time assistant fire chief Ed Norman went home on Friday after working through the night following the blackout

$40,000: Cost of the generator purchased by Nighttown in Cleveland Heights in case of a power outage

4: Approximate number of times per year Nighttown uses the generator

$437.48: The tab for Prince Albert of Monaco, who was in town for the 2003 Great Lakes Pentathlon, and his 20 companions at Nighttown:

6: Number of Great Lakes Publishing Co. employees (out of 70) who showed up for work at our downtown offices the morning after the blackout

4: Number of those who had taken a hot shower