Fireplace destroys Georgia house of boy with uncombable hair syndrome

ROSWELL, Ga – A devastating fireplace on the house has devastated a Roswell household. Flames raced by means of the house of Katelyn and Caleb Samples, and their younger sons, Shep and Lock.

The Monday afternoon fireplace destroyed the within of their house.

“Though the home continues to be standing, all the pieces is gone inside. Smoke injury, water injury, the ceiling is to the ground. The youngsters’s rooms are unrecognizable, the entire left aspect of the house is unrecognizable they usually’ve deemed all the pieces a complete loss,” stated Katelyn Samples.

Nobody was house when the hearth began. They bought alerts from their safety cameras that smoke was filling up the youngsters’s bedrooms.

“After I bought right here there have been about 10 firetrucks,” stated Samples.

FOX 5 viewers first met the Samples family last February when Lock was featured in a narrative about his hair. He has uncombable hair syndrome. It is uncommon. There are solely about 100 recognized instances.

“Individuals come as much as us, they ask to the touch it. They’ve very inquisitive about his hair,” stated Samples.

Lock can be fairly widespread on social media. The two-year-old has greater than 55,000 followers on his Instagram account that his mother began as a technique to unfold consciousness about uncombable hair syndrome. After the hearth, his followers reached out to the household.

“They only wish to be certain that he is okay and we’re okay, he has an incredible group on his Instagram,” stated Samples.

(Courtesy of Katelyn Samples)

The household says they’ve additionally acquired plenty of help from their buddies and neighbors.

“Everyone seems to be protected and that is all we will ask for,” stated Samples.

A GoFundMe account has been arrange for the household.