A 75-year-old man died Friday after running his generator in his garage during a blackout, the third death attributed to a vicious storm that coated parts of southern Quebec and eastern Ontario in ice this week.
The man's wife found him unconscious in their garage in Saint-Joseph-du-Lac, Que., on Friday morning, and he died after being taken to hospital in St-Eustache, said Insp. Jean-Philippe Labbé of Lake-of-Two-Mountains Police.
Earlier Friday, Montreal's health authority said dozens of people suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning after using outdoor appliances inside during the blackout that stretched into a third day for hundreds of thousands of Quebecers. Fallen branches still littered some Montreal streets on Friday, with crews working in strong winds to clear them away.
Nassif said his uncle and aunt and their four young children, who also live in the area, are also in the dark. In the city of Chateauguay, in the Montérégie region south of Montreal, thousands were dealing with both power outages and flooding due to the storm. "The weather situation we are monitoring today are … wind gusts of 70 kilometres per hour that maybe could generate more outages," he said during the news conference.
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