Carbon monoxide poisoning sends 4 to hospital in Toronto

Two children and two adults in east-end Toronto have reportedly been taken to hospital to be treated for carbon monoxide poisoning.

The apartment, at 35 Confederation Drive in Scarborough, was without power and the occupants were burning coal to keep warm. The extent of injuries is not yet known.

All four occupants — including the children, aged two and three — were brought down dark stairwells from the seventh floor by emergency crews.

Authorities have strongly cautioned people against using gas-powered generators, charcoal stoves or even barbecues indoors to keep warm.

At least two people died of carbon monoxide poisoning in Newcastle, Ont., east of Toronto, on Monday after trying to keep warm with a gas generator in a garage.

It's Christmas morning, but tens of thousands of Toronto residents are still waiting for electricity to be restored after an ice storm blanketed the region over the weekend.

A Toronto Hydro workman knocks ice off a frozen power line following an ice storm in Toronto. (Gary Hershorn/Reuters)

Hydro crews are working non-stop to get the lights back on and the number of outages continues to dwindle, though some customers may have to wait until the weekend to see their power restored.

In Toronto, about 70,000 Toronto Hydro customers were still blacked out, down from a high of 300,0000, and Hydro One is still coping with more than 30,000 outages.

Power Stream, which covers the region north of Toronto, says 12,000 customers are still down, and Veridian Connections, which serves the Pickering and Ajax region east of Toronto, had about 4,000 outages.

A Toronto Hydro worker surveys the damage on a street near Kingston Road and Victoria Park Avenue in Toronto. (Matthew Sherwood/Canadian Press)

Authorities are urging residents to make use of warming centres in their communities to ward off the cold.

Plunging temperatures Tuesday night prompted the city to issue a cold weather alert, aimed at making the homeless aware of the dangers of staying outside too long in cold weather and to ensure they have safe and warm places to go. The alert was cancelled early Wednesday morning.

The ice storm was among the worst of its kind to hit the city in recent memory.

It left the city's transit system with major problems throughout much of the weekend, particularly the streetcars which were suspended from service for a number of hours on Sunday.

The ice that fell also weighed down the branches of trees, which then fell onto cars, buildings and power lines.

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