An apartment fire that injured six people on the South Side of Chicago Wednesday night was set by an angered girlfriend who lit her boyfriend’s couch on fire following an argument, police said.
Chicago firefighters rescued several people from a fire in a four-story apartment building Wednesday night in the South Shore neighborhood. Six people were injured, including one child. | NVP New video
Officers called to the scene spoke with an injured man who told them his girlfriend had set his couch on fire after the two had a fight, police said.
Six people, including a child, were injured when heavy flames spread from a single apartment to a hallway of the four-story building. The fire broke out around 10 p.m. CFD Firefighters helped people out of the building, and six of them were taken to hospitals. None of the injuries were considered serious.
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.
