A large swath of Toronto’s downtown core lost power on Thursday afternoon, leaving many office buildings, a major mall and a university campus with no electricity in the middle of the day.
Hydro One said it was working to restore power as quickly as possible. A spokeswoman said the outage appeared to be related to the transmission system. Toronto Fire Services said a call came in at 12:32 p.m. related to a crane that knocked down three to four power lines, which could have caused the outage, but it was too early to attribute an exact cause.
“This is an all hands on deck situation and we’re looking to see how we can reroute power, to restore power as quickly and as safely as possible,” Tiziana Baccega Rosa said in a phone interview….