Thousands of residents in the city’s northwest end found themselves in the dark Thursday morning after a widespread power outage that lasted until the early afternoon.
It was shortly before 9 a.m. when Londoners began reporting traffic lights were down and electricity was zapped in multiple neighbourhoods including around Western University, Masonville, Hyde Park, Sunningdale and Medway.
London Hydro’s Nancy Hutton told AM980 the cause of the outage was an equipment failure.
Power was initially expected to be restored around 9:35 a.m., but it took two hours to have the bulk of the impacted areas back online.
As of 11:30 a.m. there were just a handful of powerless pockets in the Masonville area waiting to be reconnected. At that time, an estimated restoration time wasn’t given.
Hutton also confirmed there were no injuries associated with the equipment failure.
Power was restored to all impacted areas by roughly 1 p.m. Thursday.
With files from Jacquelyn LeBel.
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