BRUSH, Colo. -- A woman in Brush has a lot of cleaning up to do after a basketball-sized chunk of ice crashed through her roof, destroying her kitchen cabinets, appliances and everything its path.

Danelle Hagan and her 9-year-old daughter were inside the house when the ice crashed through the roof and landed on their kitchen floor Saturday at 10 a.m., but they were not hurt.

"If we had been in that kitchen, it would have been devastating," said Hagan.

Hagan said she initially thought it may have been a gas leak.

"I hear a huge, what sounded like an explosion. And I look over and my kitchen is basically in shambles. It was very terrifying. My daughter was screaming and crying."

"Definitely if someone would have been in the kitchen at the time of (impact), there would have been a fatality," said Brush Fire Chief Paul Acosta. "We were glad nobody got hurt."

Hagan saved chunks of the ice and put them in the freezer.

"It's hard to get your mind around it. I've never heard of this happening. It's all new to me," said Hagan.

The Federal Aviation Administration will have investigators at the house on Wednesday to see if the ice came from a plane. However, an FAA spokesman said unless it was "blue ice," it would be a "shot in the dark" to determine if it came from an aircraft. Blue ice gets its color from the disinfectants used on a plane's waste tank, so "blue ice" comes from flushed toilets on aircraft.

The FAA said Rime ice -- which is white -- can form on the fuselage or skin of an aircraft if it passes through dense fog or moisture in the atmosphere. Both types of ice can break free from a plane as it drops in altitude and enters warmer outside air temperatures.

The FAA said even if the ice came from a passing plane, it would be difficult to know exactly which airplane it came from. That's because FAA spokesman Mike Fergus said there are anywhere from 4,000 to 6,000 commercial aircraft aloft above the U.S. at any given hour.

Hagan's house has been sealed off because the tear through the roof caused asbestos exposure.