Tulsa firefighters rescued a man from a burning house in the 4000 block of East Woodrow Place Sunday morning.
Fire crews were called to the home just before 7 a.m., according to District Chief Bryan Hickerson, Tulsa Fire Department.
“We arrived on the scene to basically a bedroom fully involved,” Hickerson said. Crews quickly got the fire out and rescued the adult male who was near an exit.
“It does appear that he’s been smoked up pretty good,” Hickerson said. “He was in the house where it got very hot. He’s in the hospital, and they’re taking care of him now.”
Neighbors told firefighters two children also live in the home; however, they were not there Sunday morning.
Two neighbors tried to use a water hose to get the fire out before crews arrived.
“I just heard the commotion, heard the noise and woke up,” said neighbor David Jerrell. “And when I ran down there the woman next door – she was trying to put the fire out.
“I tried to spray the house down, but the inferno was too hot,” said Jerrell said.
Medics bandaged the injured man before taking him to the hospital, the neighbor told News On 6.
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.
