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Cambridge Electric officials have determined that a short circuit in an underground cable near Peabody Terrace caused the fire and explosion that forced residents to evacuate for more than eight hours on Sunday.
Peabody Terrace, located at the end of Banks Street, houses 1,300 graduate students, undergraduates, faculty and staff, many of whom had already left for intersession on Sunday.
"We'll play some sports--anything to lighten it up," Peabody Terrace Building Manager Pamela N. Cornell told the crowd.
Harvard Planning and Real Estate (HPRE), which owns Peabody Terrace, coordinated the University's response to the emergency.
Shuttles took the residents back to Peabody Terrace, beating the TV news trucks home.