Teen injured, thousands without power after strong storms rip through Quebec

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 30, 2025 6:58 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

A bid of thunderstorms that swept done Quebec connected Tuesday evening has near a teenage lad successful captious information successful Montreal and thousands without powerfulness crossed the province.

The teen was injured aft being pinned nether a histrion that collapsed during the tempest connected Grande-Allée Boulevard successful Montreal's Ahuntsic neighbourhood.

Urgences-santé spokesperson, Benjamin Dansereaux, said firefighters worked with paramedics to rescue the lad from nether the branches.

He was rushed to infirmary successful life-threatening condition, helium said. 

As the storms made their mode crossed the province, beardown winds knocked down branches and adjacent inferior poles successful immoderate areas, leaving thousands without powerfulness and closing down portion of Highway 19 successful Laval.

Winds of betwixt 80 to 100 km/h were registered astatine the Dorval and Saint-Hubert airports respectively.

As of 6 a.m., connected Wednesday, adjacent to 100,000 homes and businesses were inactive successful the dark, with Hydro-Québec saying the hardest deed regions were Montreal, Montérégie, Laurentians, Outaouais, and Lanaudière. 

On its website, the powerfulness inferior said gusts of wind, sometimes reaching implicit 100 km/h, "caused important harm to the web and several pieces of instrumentality request to beryllium replaced."

At the tallness of the event, adjacent to  144,000 Hydro-Quebec clients were without power.

More than 500 teams person been dispatched to restore powerfulness arsenic rapidly arsenic possible. 

In Montreal, the tempest deed astatine astir 8 p.m., causing large harm at Montreal's Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital. 

Doctor Marc Brosseau is simply a lung specializer astatine the hospital.

He described the evening arsenic being chaotic.

He said nurses were injured by breached solid aft immoderate windows were blown out.

"We had large problems," helium said, adding that backup generators didn't enactment and the intensive attraction portion was successful the dark and nary 1 was capable to transportation retired surgeries successful the operating rooms.

He said, however, that nary patients were straight affected by the outage oregon the damage.