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Schuyler Russell Corky Folmar,
five-month-old son of Angel Folmar, suffered smoke inhalation as fire destroyed
the home in which he lived with his mother and grandmother Thursday night.
The Elizabethtown Fire Department was dispatched to 601 Monin Road at 8:10 p.m.
March 10, 2005. A Hardin County Ambulance arrived on the scene shortly
thereafter to find that flames had already burned through the roof of the
structure. Witnesses reported that a five-month-old child was still in the
house, but the heavy volume of fire and smoke coming from the residence
prevented police, EMS, and bystanders from rescuing the child, according to
Rusty Todd, investigator for the Elizabethtown Fire Department.
Elizabethtown Fire Chief Mike Hulsey says that firefighters conducted a search
and found Schuyler in a back bedroom. They brought him to a waiting ambulance
crew, who transported him to Hardin Memorial Hospital. Attempts to revive the
child were unsuccessful, and he was pronounced dead at the hospital.
The child’s grandmother, Barbara Folmar, was able to escape the burning
structure through a window with the assistance of a neighbor before emergency
workers arrived. She was transported to Hardin Memorial Hospital and then taken
by LifeNet to the University of Kentucky Medical Center from which Hulsey says
she has since been released.
Three trucks and thirty personnel responded to the call, and the fire was
declared under control 36 minutes later. Hulsey says the cause of the fire
remains under investigation.
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