{"id":521842,"date":"2026-03-08T04:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521842\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T04:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:45:18","slug":"13000-left-in-the-dark-as-power-outage-hits-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521842\/","title":{"rendered":"13,000 left in the dark as power outage hits Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large section of Toronto is without electricity this evening (March 7), and the outage could last until tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Hydro reports that 13,500 customers have had the lights go out in the city\u2019s east end, and it is affecting both households and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of the outage were first reported to Toronto Hydro around 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency hydro crews are on the scene investigating the source of the problem, but early estimates are that power won\u2019t be restored until 1 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The area affected includes the neighbourhoods Birchmount Park, Greenwood-Coxwell, The Beach, Upper Beach, Oakridge, Woodbine-Lumsden, Taylor-Massey, Clairlea-Birchmount, Scarborough Junction and Leslieville.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidyard-player-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772645772_111_awZCW3rPmWvxPqZHnBCKLu.jpg\" data-videoid=\"790139\" data-uuid=\"awZCW3rPmWvxPqZHnBCKLu\" data-v=\"4\" data-type=\"inline\" data-muted=\"1\" style=\"width:100%\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>        <img width=\"1024\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-30-at-1.55.02-PM-1024x513.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>      <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1086\" height=\"779\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-798812\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Toronto-power-outage-March-8.jpg\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insauga.com\/editorial-guidelines\" class=\"editorial-guidelines-link d-block mb-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n            INsauga&#8217;s Editorial Standards and Policies        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last 30 Days: 36,698 Votes<\/p>\n<p>All Time: 1,252,917 Votes<\/p>\n<p>    646 VOTES<br \/>\n    How often do you shop at brick-and-mortar clothing stores?    <\/p>\n<p>\tWIN A $100 GIFT CARD<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to INsauga\u2019s daily email newsletter for a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large section of Toronto is without electricity this evening (March 7), and the outage could last until&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-521842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}