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About 70 homeless people in Chicago will have a warm refuge for the rest of the week thanks to a kind stranger. The inhabitants of a tent camp at a vacant downtown lot were left without a heating source Wednesday after a propane tank exploded. Nobody was injured, but with the temperatures at -22 degrees, the Salvation Army planned to move people to its warming center, reports WGN. Instead, "some wonderful citizen is going to put all of them up at a hotel for the rest of the week," a rep tells the Chicago Tribune. The unknown individual isn't the only one helping out. Khloe Thompson, an 11-year-old girl living in Los Angeles, helped raise almost $40,000 for Salvation Army Chicago in a single day after learning of the cold spell, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. (Read more homeless stories.)