Sizzling Smoking Saturday

Journal 13: On Saturday I went to my friend's apartment to relax and hang out. At 2:00, my friends and I smelt smoke in the air. Down the street at the condos lining Iolani a fire had started and a column of smoke billowed out from the door and it seemed the roof. While we could not see a fire, the smoke was most likely from a short circuit of an appliance. Short circuits occur when the path of an electric circuit is intercepted by an object which provides a shorter path of very little or no resistance. Thus the electrons bypass the original path of the circuit and quickly, heatedly speed through the low resistance path. Thus, this burns the wire and may start a spark, leading to a fire. This is most likely possibility to what started the fire.