Truck explosion caught on camera in suburban Chicago neighborhood as leaking propane to blame: officials

A motortruck that unexpectedly exploded successful a suburban Chicago neighborhood implicit the vacation play damaged respective homes and injured the driver, authorities said. 

Investigators successful Addison, 20 miles westbound of Chicago, said the incidental has been ruled an mishap owed to a leaking propane vessel wrong the container motortruck rental.

The Addison Fire Protection District and Addison Police Department responded to the country of the detonation connected Saturday.

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A motortruck exploded successful a suburban Chicago vicinity connected Saturday.  (Rock Foreman, Owner of RK Rentals/TMX)

Crews discovered a "large debris tract "with "no denotation of immoderate fire" astatine that point.

Ring camera footage taken from a location shows the motortruck traveling connected a roadworthy successful a residential country erstwhile it explodes each of a sudden. 

"The detonation damaged a fewer homes successful the area, but cipher was injured different than the operator who sustained insignificant injuries," the Addison Police Department said successful a Facebook update. 

The motortruck was Penske container truck, which the institution told Fox News Digital had been rented retired to a lawsuit moving household belongings.

"Penske volition cooperate afloat with immoderate further probe by instrumentality enforcement," the institution said successful a statement. "Under Penske’s rental agreement, explosive, flammable oregon different hazardous materials should not beryllium transported successful a user rental moving truck."

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A motortruck exploded successful an Illinois vicinity connected Saturday.  (Rock Foreman, Owner of RK Rentals/TMX)

One location was evacuated due to the fact that of structural harm and the imaginable for it to collapse, constabulary said. 

"I thought, 'Wow, they're starting aboriginal with the fireworks, this year, but that 1 definite seems to person a small other punch'," neighbour Angelo Source told WLS-TV of the startling moment.

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Addison Fire Chief Brock Herion said the debris tract stretched astir a block, Fox Chicago reported.

First responders searched the motortruck and recovered the driver, who was taken to a section infirmary with non-life-threatening injuries.