(BERWYN) A woman is in critical condition after being rescued from a fire at her home in west suburban Berwyn.
The blaze started in a rear bedroom of the home in the 1600 block of Ridgeland Avenue about 11:30 a.m., according to Berwyn Fire Chief Denis O’Halloran.
Firefighters searching the home found a woman in her 60s who was having trouble breathing and had suffered burns, O’Halloran said. She was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in critical condition.
No one else was in the home, which sustained moderate smoke and heat damage, he said.
O’Halloran said the cause of the fire remains under investigation, though it doesn’t appear as though it was intentionally set. It was not immediately clear if there were working smoke detectors in the home
Curt Isakson is a 35 year veteran of the fire service. Curt is currently a Battalion Chief for Escambia County Fire Rescue. Previously worked 9 years with the Pensacola Fire Department where he was assigned as the Company Officer on Rescue 31. Curt’s fire service experiences started at a young age as a Junior firefighter with the Midway Fire Protection District and rose through the ranks to Captain. He has worked in volunteer, career, and combination departments.
Curt has held all ranks up to Battalion Chief and been assigned to operations, training, inspections, and was Chief of Special Operations for 7 years. Curt owns and operates County Fire Tactics that covers a very diverse range of fire service topics, as well as Firefighter Rescues, a site that documents rescues made by firefighters around the country.
He has annual contracts with numerous departments to provide standardized monthly training for these departments that respond daily together under an automatic aid agreement. Curt teaches nationally to include; FDIC, Firehouse Expo, Firehouse World, Orlando Fire Conference, Atlanta Fire Conference, Bowling Green State University, and owns/operates the annual HROC, COBC, WOTF, CFT ODP on Pensacola Beach. He is a Florida Certified Fire Officer, Instructor, Inspector, Arson, and FLUSAR.
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