“The station is flooded,” one Union Station attendant told commuters earlier today. “Unless you want to go down there and ride a submarine, the TTC is closed.”
Environment Canada is calling for up to 125 mm of rain on Tuesday. There may be 40 mm of rainfall per hour.
Deputy Fire Chief Jim Jessop told reporters at city hall that Toronto Fire’s call volume was triple its normal hourly rate, and the service was rescuing people from cars and elevators.
While calls were coming in for flooded homes and apartment buildings, as well as alarms set off by water trickling into building control panels, he said the agency was prioritizing responses to life-threatening situations.
“There’s certainly going to be a lag time on response for non-life threatening calls,” he warned.