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Toronto:- Toronto Hydro says power has been restored to several buildings near the city’s waterfront that were hit by multiple power outages in the last two weeks.
For approximately 18 hours, nine buildings in the area bounded by Front Street, Lake Shore Boulevard, Bathurst Street and York Street were without power and the outage was the fourth one in the last two weeks.
As of 1:30 p.m., power had been restored to all of the affected buildings.
The issue stemmed from two faulty cables, Toronto Hydro spokesperson Jennifer Martin said Sunday.
“So the overarching issue in this neighbourhood is aging infrastructure,” Martin added.
“The infrastructure that acutally supplies power to this neighbourhood is old. So we have two very old cables. They supply power to this neighbourhood.”
She said one of the cables has already been replaced and crews intend to replace the second cable tonight to increase power supply to the neighbourhood.
Gary Pieters, president of the CityPlace Residents’ Association, says occupants of the affected buildings are frustrated by the ongoing problem.
“People have lost time, businesses were forced to close early…There were quite a number of pressure points on the residents of this neighbourhood over the past couple of days,” Pieters told CP24 Sunday morning.
One resident told CP24 that they were unable to sleep all night because of a ringing fire alarm in their building.
“Nobody gave us any sort of assistance. The fire alarm went off, there was no message from the service desk… we are on the 33rd floor so we had to run 33 flights of stairs down to ask for assistance, nothing whatsoever,” he said.
“We are all pretty shaken right now.”
