{"id":695877,"date":"2026-05-26T23:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/695877\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T23:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:15:09","slug":"power-restored-after-widespread-outage-in-downtown-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/695877\/","title":{"rendered":"Power restored after widespread outage in downtown Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"

Power has been fully restored following a widespread outage in downtown Toronto on Tuesday that impacted numerous traffic lights and, at one point, resulted in the electronic billboards outside the Eaton Centre going dark. <\/p>\n

The outage, which was first reported just before noon, was the result of a small fire at Hydro One\u2019s Terauley Transmission Station.<\/p>\n

It plunged parts of Toronto\u2019s financial district into darkness, with officials indicating that the outage was largely impacting an area between Yonge Street and University Avenue south of Dundas Street. <\/p>\n

By 2:30 p.m., Toronto Hydro confirmed that power had been restored to a \u201clarge portion\u201d of impacted customers. The company then confirmed at 4 p.m. that power had been fully restored to the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe sincerely apologize for the disruption this outage caused and thank our customers and the community for their patience and understanding while crews worked to safely restore service,\u201d Toronto Hydro said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The utility company noted that approximately 1,360 customers were affected at the peak of the outage.<\/p>\n

Toronto police previously confirmed that the outage was impacting numerous traffic lights, and those intersections should be treated as four-way stops.<\/p>\n

\"\"Outage in downtown Toronto Outage in downtown Toronto, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (Toronto Hydro) Eaton Centre, TMU impacted <\/p>\n

Electronic billboards outside the Eaton Centre were also blank at around noon on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Toronto Metropolitan University said the power outage impacted some areas of the downtown campus and students in some buildings, including RAC, JOR, POD, LIB, TRS, SLC, YNG, and YDI, should evacuate immediately. <\/p>\n

\u201cEvacuation is required because a utilities failure of this nature may compromise the building\u2019s life-safety systems (i.e. fire-detection and sprinkler systems),\u201d an email from the university read. <\/p>\n

\u201cFor your safety, please avoid these areas of campus.\u201d<\/p>\n

All classes, labs or exams being held in these buildings were paused until power was restored. <\/p>\n

Employees who work in those buildings were also told to \u201cfind an alternate place to work or take a break nearby until the power failure has been resolved.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEmployees who provide essential services on campus should check with their leaders for further instructions,\u201d the email read. <\/p>\n

\"\"Transformer fire knocks out power to hundreds of customers in downtown Toronto Transformer fire knocks out power to hundreds of customers in downtown Toronto, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. Power back on at SickKids Hospital <\/p>\n

SickKids Hospital said it experienced a \u201ctemporary power failure\u201d across all buildings but the lights are now back on. <\/p>\n

\u201cPower has been restored and teams are assessing impacts,\u201d the downtown hospital said in a social media post. <\/p>\n

\u201cCare is continuing and the hospital is operating, including the Emergency Department and clinics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Power has been fully restored following a widespread outage in downtown Toronto on Tuesday that impacted numerous traffic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-695877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695877","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=695877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}