Nearly 3,500 Hamilton homes, businesses affected by power outage

Power has been restored following a major outage in a section of Hamilton’s west end Thursday night, which lasted less than hour.

Almost 3,500 homes and businesses were without electricity just before 9 p.m. due to an equipment malfunction.

Alectra’s website showed the affected area was from Dundurn Street to James Street, and from Aberdeen Avenue to the Bayfront.

An eye-witness described seeing a fireball in front of the Good Shepherd administration building on Bay St. North.

A first-responder at the scene confirmed that there was a fireball.

The corporation reported on X that all power was restored at around 9:45 p.m.

All power has now been restored in #HamOnt. If you are still without power please call 1-833-ALECTRA ^pa

— Alectra (@alectranews) March 14, 2025

Alectra says that this was an isolated outage and, “will not likely occur again.”

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