As many as 100,000 customers across Toronto were without power Friday night as a result of the surprisingly damaging afternoon wind storm. A large outage eoccurred in near East York across the Don Valley. The blackout stretched from Danforth across Mortimer Ave up to parts of O’Connor Drive. Toronto Hydro appealed for patience as it worked to restore electricity. Former CTV reporter Naomi Parness tweeted a picture of shingled and social media saw dozens of photos of fallen trees. Caution is still urged around downed power lines. Toronto Hydro suggests drivers stay at least 10 metres back (length of a school bus) to be safe.
TREE WORKER KILLED
A man working on trees has been killed in Milton and another seriously injured in the fall of a tree Friday. Halton Regional Police say the men were working on a tree in the area of Side Road 20 and Fourth Line Nassagaweya in Milton this afternoon when the tree collapsed. A man in his 50s was struck by a falling tree in the Bloor Street West and Windermere Avenue area of Etobicoke, Toronto paramedics said. The man was taken to local hospital for treatment of undetermined injuries.
