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.
