A 23-year old man is lucky to be alive after firefighters rescued him from a house fire in the Cold Lake area during the early morning hours of Thursday.
Staff Sgt. Scott Buchanan of the Cold Lake RCMP says the man was found unconscious in the home located in English Bay at Cold Lake First Nation.
Emergency personnel treated the man at the scene and rushed him to the Cold Lake Health Centre and then transferred him via STARS Air Ambulance to the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton. He is undergoing further treatment and is listed in serious, but stable condition.
No one else was found inside the burning home.
The Cold Lake Fire Department was able to control and extinguish the blaze. The fire is under investigation by RCMP and fire investigators.
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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