A massive power outage left about 7,000 people in the dark in downtown Toronto and it seems the culprit to blame is the city’s unofficial mascot, a raccoon.
On Thursday night, Hydro One said a raccoon had made contact with its equipment at a downtown station.
“We’re currently responding to an outage affecting customers in and around the following boundaries: St. Clair Avenue W to Gerrard Street W and Avenue Road to the Don Valley Parkway,” Toronto Hydro said in a statement on X.
According to its outage map, the outage began around 7:40 p.m. and it wasn’t until 10:30 p.m when power was fully restored.
In response to the outage, some Torontonians had a field day on X when they found out a raccoon was behind it all.
