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A Mount Sherman man died Saturday evening in a mobile home fire on Greensburg Road near Mount Sherman.
LaRue County Constable Tim Ford, who owns the property, said he was notified the home was on fire about 6 p.m.
Ford and neighbors broke a window in an attempt to get to the man but there was too much smoke.
"Smoke was just billowing out when I got there," Ford said.
Buffalo and Magnolia firefighters, the LaRue County Sheriff's Department and LaRue County EMS responded to the scene.
Kentucky State Police, the State Fire Marshal and the coroner have been dispatched to the property.

 It’s unclear what caused a frame house on Bardstown Road to burn over the weekend.

The house, in the area known as White City, had been used for fire department training, according to LaRue County Fire Chief Jason Sadler.

“We had been using it as a training structure,” Sadler said. “We told (the owners) we couldn’t burn it.”

Sadler said the fire department was not called to contain the fire.

Other county officials had not responded to queries about the fire as of presstime.

 Five American Idol contestants from Kentucky who advanced to the Hollywood stage of competition will be featured singers at the Glen Rice and Friends Musical Concert Series April 19 performance at the Performing Arts Center in Elizabethtown.

Is the county dying?

The U.S. Census issued a report last week showing births and deaths in all U.S. counties from the end of June 2011 to July 1, 2012. There were more deaths than births in 36 percent of the nation's 3,100-plus counties.

In rural counties, the percentage of places with more deaths than births was even higher. Nearly half (46 percent) had more deaths than births. A number of news reports, according to The Rural Blog, carried headlines saying that these counties were “dying.”