Not quite a dumpster fire, but a wire fire

[thedudeabides86]

Soooooo, I learned a lesson last night. Disconnect the battery whilst working on things, when applicable. I installed a cigarette lighter from LMC last fall to charge the phone when I was driving. I disconnected the lighter cable to work on the heater assembly last night when all of the sudden I bumped the wire which sparked on the back of the lighter assembly. After a few seconds it had fused together and I got up to disconnect the battery. In the time it took to grab a 3/8 wrench and disconnect the battery, the lighter wire had burned up from the fuse box up toward the cluster under the dash. Hopefully, it didn’t melt any other wires behind the cluster but it did melt the radio wire, which, the radio hadn’t worked anyway. I cut out the bad wires and found a wire under the hood in the engine compartment that melted as well, but I’m not sure what it is or where it goes. I reconnected the battery and tried the headlights which was okay, but I haven’t fired it up yet. Anyone have any input as to what trouble this might have caused? The pictures posted are of the engine compartment and the wire coming off the fusible link (if that’s the right term?) on the side of the fender. Thanks for reading.