Truck explosion damages multiple homes in Chicago suburb

ADDISON, Ill. -- A motortruck detonation damaged aggregate homes successful a Chicago suburb Saturday morning, according to police.

The detonation happened astatine astir 8:40 a.m. successful the suburb of Addison.

The infinitesimal the detonation happened was caught connected video by a location information camera. The operator walked distant with lone insignificant injuries.

"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 said.

"We missed it this happening astir three-to-five minutes," neighbour Rock Foreman said. "Like, if we conscionable lounged astir a small spot longer, we would've been close present erstwhile it happened."

After the blast, pieces of the motortruck tin beryllium heard hitting the ground.

"Probably astir a block, two-block agelong debris tract of debris from the houses and the truck," Addison Fire Protection District Chief Brock Herion said. "The driver...was walking adjacent to the motortruck erstwhile the crews pulled up."

Investigators said they judge a propane vessel being carried successful the motortruck was leaking earlier it exploded. Police said the unit damaged 4 homes, including Rock Foreman's.

The worst location harm was astatine Foreman's neighbor's home, straight crossed the street.

"It startled him to death," Foreman said.

Penske said the conveyance was rented retired to a lawsuit who was moving household items.

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

Police said the detonation was "accidental." Amid each the damage, neighbors are uncovering alleviation that the blast was not deadly.