Hydro vault fire dims Yonge and Eglinton
Police say the vault burst into flames at around 5:40 a.m., near a cluster of apartment buildings on Erskine Ave., west of Mt. Pleasant Rd.
Fire crews quickly extinguished the blaze, but power was out in the area until late in the morning.
The affected area runs north of Eglinton Ave. to Alexandra Blvd, and just west of Yonge St. to about Mt. Pleasant Rd.
“Hydro is aware of it and they’re working overtime to rectify it,” said Toronto police Const. Marc Kalteis.
No injuries were reported but a few thousand people have been affected by the outage.
A set of downed power lines near Chaplin Cres. and Eglinton Ave. W. could also be contributing to the problem, according to Toronto Hydro.
The Chaplin-area outage began at around 5:30 a.m. and is affecting roughly 265 people. That area is bordered by Forest Hill Rd. and Spadina Rd. on the east, and running southeast along Dunvegan Rd. until about Frybrook Rd.
Investigators are currently looking into the cause of the outages, a process that may take several days.
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