A man told emergency services he was injured when an electronic cigarette he was smoking blew up in his hand.
In his 911 call, he claims the device exploded as he enjoyed a puff at his apartment in the 100 block of East MacArthur Boulevard in Santa Ana at about 1:30 a.m.
His face and hands were burned in the incident, which also caused a fire in his apartment.
"I'm freaking out. I just had an electronic cigarette blow up in my hand... it's stuck in the wall... it caught on fire... it blew up in my face," he told the 911 dispatcher.
The man told firefighters he heard a humming sound before the explosion, which caused him to pull it out of his mouth just before it blew up.
Last month, an Anaheim teen was hospitalized after his electronic cigarette exploded. His hand was badly burned in the explosion, which his girlfriend described as sounding like a gun going off.