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Midtown Toronto outage leaves thousands without power

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

Thousands are without power after an outage in Toronto’s midtown area, according to Toronto Hydro.

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In a tweet, the power provider said crews were “completing an assessment of damaged equipment” in an area around St. Clair Avenue East on Monday evening.

The area affected ran from Glencairn Avenue south to St. Clair Avenue East and from Avenue Road east to Mount Pleasant Road.

An outage map on the Toronto Hydro website showed Forest Hill South, Davisville Village and Eglinton Park as areas impacted.

“Customers in this area will be experiencing an outage as a result,” the tweet said.

A spokesperson told Global News an estimated 4,000 were without power.

As of 7 a.m. Tuesday, power had still not been fully restored in the area. Toronto Hydro’s website initially indicated an estimated time of restoration for power to be around noon on Tuesday. That was later updated to 4 p.m.

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In an update after 5:30 p.m., a spokesperson said that “the majority of customers” in the area had had their power restored.

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