Tuesday, 1 March 2016

Hydro vault fire turns off the juice for Toronto Transit


An electrical fire is being blamed for a major service outage on the TTC Tuesday morning.

Toronto Fire responded to a call around 4:00am of smoke pouring out an underground hydro vault in the Richmond and Victoria Area. Power to the area was turned off while crews worked to being the fire under control.

Service on the Yonge subway was shut down from St Andrew to Bloor stations just in time for the morning rush. Several street car lines were also disrupted, leaving commuters scrambling to board cramped shuttle buses. Some just gave up and walked.



Full transit service was restored shortly before 11:00am.

TTC representative Brad Ross confirmed the fire had originated in one of the transit company's vaults. Crews are still investigating the cause.

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