At least one person hurt in Streamwood explosion, fire

One person was hurt in an explosion and subsequent townhouse fire Monday in Streamwood, officials said.

Authorities responded at 4:02 p.m. to reports of an explosion that blew several windows and doors out of a building on the 0-100 block of East Shagbark Lane, according to a news release from the Streamwood Fire Department. Crews quickly put out the fire, the release said. Investigators found that a gas pipe in the basement of the townhouse had been damaged and filled the basement with an explosive concentration of gas that ignited.

A heating and air conditioning contractor was working on the outside the townhouse and was injured by flying glass. He was taken to St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates with nonlife-threatening injuries and has been released, the news release said.

One unit of the three-unit townhouse building sustained $75,000 in damage.