A man in his 20s was burned early Monday morning after an electronic cigarette reportedly exploded and started a small fire in the bedroom within his high-end Santa Ana apartment, fire officials said.

Orange County Fire Authority officials responded around 1:45 a.m. to reports of a fire inside a unit at The Marke Apartments, 100 E. MacArthur Blvd.

A man was sitting on his bed and “smoking an e-cigarette when he heard a humming sound, so he pulled it away from his mouth and it exploded,” OCFA Capt. Steve Concialdi said.

He called 911 and said his bedroom was on fire after the explosion, but he was able to extinguish the flames that were on his sheets and folded clothes on his bed with water before the 25 dispatched firefighters arrived, OCFA Capt. Steve Concialdi said.

Firefighters found half of the e-cigarette stuck in the ceiling and the other half became shrapnel that was found scattered across the bedding.

The man was taken to Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach with minor burns to his face and hands and a cut on his hand.

No one else was in the apartment at the time of the explosion, Concialdi said.