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Good Samaritan picks up hotel tab for 70 homeless as Chicago flirts with all time cold record Chic

A good Samaritan has offered to spring for hotel rooms for 70 people who were camped out in tents overnight after their propane tanks were confiscated, leaving them without any source of heat.

Isnt that wonderful? At least theyre warm and theyre safe, said Salvation Army spokeswoman Jacqueline Rachev.

The 70 people had set up tents and spent the night in a makeshift camp on Roosevelt Road near the Dan Ryan Expressway. By 6 a.m. Wednesday, the with a wind chill of 49 degrees below zero.

But on Wednesday afternoon, one of about 100 donated propane tanks the group was using exploded, according to Rachev.

The incident caused a hazardous materials response by the Chicago Fire Department, but no one was injured, said department Chief Walter Schroeder.

Ducking under a blue tarp hung across an opening in a wire fence, Richard Vargas and Mimi Hristova shuffled through mounds of snow, pausing at each of close to a dozen tents in a small lot near Roosevelt Road and the Dan Ryan Expressway.

Salvation Army, hats gloves scarves socks! Vargas bellowed....

We responded to a fire, Schroeder said. When we got there, the fire was extinguished and they found all these propane cylinders. Thats when we escalated it to a Level I Hazmat.

The chief understood the act of kindness to help those in need, but urged against the use of the tanks.

There was a significant amount of propane there, and with that many cylinders, thats like a bomb going off, Schroeder said.

The city immediately notified Rachev, who began preparations for those in the makeshift camp to move to the Salvation Armys warming center, 825 N. Christiana Ave.

Then, about an hour later, the city called again and informed them of the gesture.

Only one man decided not to take them up on the offer, and he has checked into the warming center on Christiana, known as the Freedom Center.

Rachev was not sure of the identity of the good Samaritan and only knew the hotel was on the citys South Side.

All the folks there, some wonderful citizen is going to put all of them up at a hotel for the rest of the week, she said.

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A good Samaritan has offered to spring for hotel rooms for 70 people who were camped out in tents overnight after their propane tanks were confiscated, leaving them without any source of heat.

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An anonymous donor paid for 70 homeless people to stay in a hotel in Chicago amid near record low temperatures.

The people were camping out in tents overnight despite the bitter cold, with temperatures plunging to 22 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind chill of 49 degrees below zero.

On Tuesday night, Jan. 29, the group camped on state owned land near the Dan Ryan Expressway, but on Wednesday one of about 175 donated propane cylinders at the encampment, exploded after being placed too close to a space heater.

Officers rushed over and declared the tent city unsafe.

This is extremely unsafe, Maj. David Byrd, the Illinois State Police Region commander, . Chicago Fire Department Chief Walter Schroeder said that the situation was deemed a Level 1 Hazmat due to all the cylinders.

There was a significant amount of propane there, and with that many cylinders, thats like a bomb going off, Schroeder told the .

Salvation Army officials began preparing to move those who had been staying in the tent city to a Salvation Army Warming Center but the city called about an hour later and said an anonymous good Samaritan offered to pick up the tab for the people to stay in a hotel.

All but one man accepted the offer; that man went to the warming center.

All the folks there, some wonderful citizen is going to put all of them up at a hotel for the rest of the week, Salvation Army spokeswoman Jacqueline Rachev said. Isnt that wonderful? At least theyre warm and theyre safe.

Good Samaritan picks up hotel tab for 70 homeless as Chicago flirts with all time cold record

— Jim Kirk @kirkjim12

Doctors and other volunteers visited homeless encampments amid the bitter temperatures, trying to help anyone who needed assistance.

Dr. Ralph Ryan, a retired cardiologist, is a volunteer with a street medicine van operated by nonprofit Night Ministry. The group rolled out on Tuesday to check on homeless people across the city.

Ryan moved from tent to tent and asked if anyone needed anything. If he got no response, he told the , he was prepared to break protocol and open the tent to make sure those inside were alive.

One 53 year old woman, Karen, who was staying in a tent, told Ryan what clothes she was wearing.

Pants, sweatpants, long underwear, a long sleeve shirt, two sweatshirts, a jacket, two pairs of socks. And sneakers, she said. And five blankets when I sleep, she said.

She said her feet felt numb and that she might have to go to a shelter. But Ryan said that many homeless people say what they believe the volunteers want to hear.

They tell us what they think we want to hear a lot of the time, Ryan said.

A wind chill warning was still in effect in northeastern Illinois and other parts of the Midwest on Thursday, according to the .

Dangerous cold this morning and accumulating snow this afternoon and evening dangerously cold wind chills of 25 to 45 below zero, the service stated.

The cold wind chills can cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes, the agency said.

A Wind Chill Warning means the combination of very cold air and the wind will create dangerously low wind chill values. Frostbite can occur quickly and even hypothermia or death if precautions are not taken, it added.

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LOVEBIRDS Joe Sugg and Dianne Buswell have boasted about their lavish hotel suite - and said they should have invited their castmates over for a party

It comes after The Sun revealed how Joe, 27, and Dianne, 29, quit the Strictly Come Dancing tour hotels following a string of bust-ups with their co-stars over their constant public displays of affection

And now the Youtuber has showed his 3.7million subscribers the life of luxury him and Dianne have been living at the five star Titanic in Liverpool - compared to their colleagues who were staying in the city's Hilson hotel

Joe said: "There's so much room in this hotel, I feel we could literally have a game of five-a-side football in here

"We've got our own bar, we should get some tunes on and have a party. We should invite everybody else to come round and have a party

" And Dianne, upon seeing that there was a bottle of Prosecco in the room, revealed that she had never opened a bottle of bubbly before

She then lounges in bedroom, recreating the famous scene in Titanic by saying: "Paint me like one of your Liverpool girls Joe

" Joe also panned the camera around the room's large kitchen area and living room - and Dianne called the room 'amazing'

After arriving in Liverpool on Monday, the couple shunned the tour's pre-paid accommodation at the Hilton Hotel and booked into the plush hotel

Rooms inside the boutique establishment start at £105 a night, with Joe and Dianne opting for the most luxurious suite at £450 per day

A source said: "Joe and Dianne were reeling after realising everyone on the tour was getting sick of their non-stop snogging

"It can be gruelling living inside each other's pockets all the time so, when they reached Liverpool, Joe and Dianne shocked everyone by saying they'd made their own plans

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