A mobile home that exploded Wednesday night propelled its occupant so far that the Grand County Sheriff’s Department didn’t find him until this afternoon.
The trailer exploded around 7:30 Wednesday night. The unidentified man was found about 120 feet away, behind an unoccupied home, according to a statement from Undersheriff Walt Eldridge about 4 p.m..
The man still has not been identified, and investigators had not yet determined the cause of the explosion.
Three nearby trailers were destroyed and cars and trucks in the blast zone were scorched or razed.
A search of the three other destroyed mobile homes in the trailer park turned up no other casualties.
The body was found about 1:30 p.m. this afternoon in the trailer park along U.S. 34 near Lake Granby.
The cause of the explosion is still under investigation.
Three local fire departments, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, and the Gilpin County Sheriff’s Department and its Coroner’s Office are involved in the investigation, Eldridge said.
Located five miles northeast of the town of Granby and just south of Grand Lake, Grand Lake has about 40 miles of shoreline dotted with fishing camps and vacation rentals.
