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Thousands of Torontonians were engulfed in darkness overnight due to power outages in the city’s east end and northern areas.
Lights are back on for most residents as of 8 a.m. Sunday and both outages are no longer displayed on Toronto Hydro’s outage map.
Just after 8 p.m. Saturday, approximately 13,000 customers were impacted by a large power outage in the city’s east end and Beaches neighbourhood, according to Toronto Hydro’s map.
Videos on social media showed people and cars slowly moving down a blacked out road on the usually bustling and brightly lit Queen St. E.
Toronto Hydro said on social media “multiple neighbourhoods” in the area of Danforth Ave., Queen St., Victoria Park Ave. and Greenwood Ave. were without power overnight.
It said it was working with Hydro One due to “a loss of supply outage.”
Power was fully restored to the area around 12:20 a.m. Sunday, said Toronto Hydro spokesperson Sami Siddiqui.
The usually brightly lit Queen Street E. was engulfed in darkness due to a power outage that was caused by ” a loss of supply” from Hydro One, according to Toronto Hydro on social media. (Rozenn Nicolle/CBC)
An equipment issue at Hydro One’s Main Transmission Station resulted in the power outage Saturday, said spokesperson Bianca Pizzo.
Crews made temporary repairs and located the defective equipment, she said, adding they’ll continue to work to make permanent repairs this week.
Toronto Hydro sent out an alert on social media at 4:10 a.m. of another outage impacting parts of Ward 6, York Centre, and Ward 7, Humber River-Black Creek. That outage affected about 2,870 customers, it said.
The outage was due to “equipment failure” and power was mostly back around 5:19 a.m., and then fully restored around 11 a.m., said Siddiqui.