Kentucky State Police now tell us the person who died in a Floyd County house fire was an 8-year-old boy named Payton Hylton.
"Well when law enforcement and fire department rescue get to a scene and they're told there's someone inside they naturally step up their game and start an aggressive attack on a fire, and reduce underway, then you find out it's a small child, it hits home on people," said William Petry with KSP Post 13.
Floyd County Schools Superintendent said the child was a 2nd grader at one of their elementary schools. Grief counselors are at the school if teachers or students need them.
It happened around 11 Monday night. Police say the home is located about a mile north of Highway 80 and about a mile south of the Prestonsburg exit on U.S. 23.