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
