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Nov 17, 2009 1:09 pm US/Mountain

Victims In Weld County Explosion Identified

KERSEY, Colo. (CBS4) ― Two Coloradans remain hospitalized after their Weld County farmhouse exploded and burned.

The explosion happened early Monday after a man said his stove exploded. The farmhouse is about 7 miles north of Kersey.

A spokeswoman for the Weld County Sheriff's Office said the explosion injured Brandon Zeller, 23, and Brandi Patterson, 25.

A neighbor told the Greeley Tribune that some puppies died in the blast.

The north wall of the two-bedroom farmhouse was blown 20 feet off its foundation by the explosion, which is being blamed on a propane leak. The explosion also shook windows of a house a quarter of a mile to the north.

"I thought it was like a car maybe hit the house, or a plane. Or an oil well exploded," neighbor Marsha Miller said.

"It just sounded like a bomb, a grenade or something, you know," Richard Miller said. "So we started looking around and we seen flames down there, way up into the air, up into the trees."

Zeller and Patterson were being treated at the burn center at North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley.

"It could have happened anywhere on that propane line. Up in the attic where it had come through it could have leaked, broken in the subzero temperature last night and created a cloud on that part of the house," Chief Barry Schaffer with the Platte Valley Fire Protection District said.

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