Power mostly returns across Toronto on Friday after high winds swept city
Houses evacuated in the Annex after trees came down Thursday, but owners have returned to secure properties
Power has mostly returned to Toronto after high winds swept through the city on Thursday.
There were fewer than 15 outages in the city as of 6:30 a.m. on Friday, according to the Toronto Hydro outage map.
CBC Toronto has reached out to Toronto Hydro to confirm the number of outages.
Thousand of customers were without power across Toronto on Thursday evening. About 3,050 customers were without power at about 10:15 p.m., according to Maja Boric, spokesperson for Toronto Hydro.
No injuries have been reported.
"Crews are making progress and continue to work as quickly and safely as possible," Toronto Hydro said in a post on X at about 9 p.m. on Thursday.
The utility added that it expected the majority of remaining customers to have their power restored later in the evening or overnight.
Earlier on Thursday, Toronto Fire Services said firefighters were responding to calls about wires down at a number of locations in the city.
These included Park Street and Sandown Avenue in Scarborough, Allenby Avenue and Islington Avenue near Highway 401 in Etobicoke, Leopold Street in Parkdale, and Kendal Avenue and Walmer Road in the Annex.
Toronto police said a few houses were evacuated on Kendal Avenue because several trees and wires came down, but Toronto Fire Services said later that the owners have returned and secured their properties.