Grass Fire in St-Hubert Sparks Power Outage

0:00Thousands of residents in St. Hubert, a Montreal South Shore, went dark Thursday afternoon, after a grass-fire sparked near St. Bruno Street and knocked out power for thousands. Firefighters rolled out around 4.15 p.m. to Joseph Dagnall Street as the Longwill Fire Department posted warnings that things could get. Worse while they fought the flames. Social media lit up with videos of massive smoke clouds and fire ripping through the field, prompting officials to tell folks to steer clear of them. Whole Zone. The blaze likely kicked off in a wooded spot at the corner of Gaiton Bocher, Boulevard, and Joseph Dagnall Street, but no one knows the cause yet. By 6 p.m. crews were still battling it, with the street shut down type-power outages lingered into the evening as they worked to contain the spread. That's the story for today, Canada News Today, driven by AI. I'm Corey with The Story.