rachel poliquin is the exhibit's curator. >> steve's taxidermy was great.had a certain charisma and passion to it. >> the following year, kulash is preparing to pursue one of his other passions -- an international hunting expedition. >> then one night in march 2010, his son stacey, who lives in the basement of the family home, is awakened by the smoke alarm. >> i opened up my bedroom door, there was a five-foot fire. >> as stacey runs next door to phone the fire department, his dad makes a fatal mistake. >> he went and tried to put the fire out himself when he could have just walked right out the front door. >> could you see? could you breathe? >> i tried to get him out of the basement, but there was too much smoke. i couldn't get back down there. >> steve kulash gets trapped amid piles of boxes and equipment. [ siren wails ] >> a while later they told us that our father passed away. >> he leaves behind the business where he'd worked side-by-side with his sons, filled with nearly 200 mounted animals. that's not including the metaphorical elephant in the liv