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Power restored in St. Lawrence Market area after outage Wednesday night

The area impacted by the mass outage included Ellesmere Road south to Kingston Road and Markham Road east to Morningside Avenue. File photo of Toronto Hydro logo. The Canadian Press /Stephen C. Host/File

Toronto Hydro says power has been fully restored in the St. Lawrence Market area following an outage Wednesday evening.

Electricity went out around 8 p.m. in the area circled by Front Street, Parliament Street, Queen’s Quay and York Street.

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Toronto Hydro said crews found extensive damage to underground equipment and that repairs were ongoing throughout the overnight hours.

By early Thursday morning, officials said they were restoring power to customers “one by one.”

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Officials confirmed the electricity was back on at 6:30 a.m. ET.

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