Chicago- A woman whose foot was lodged in a hole in a crosswalk near Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive was rescued by firefighters Friday night.
Around 10:25 p.m. the woman’s leg was caught in an “expansion joint” while she was crossing the street in the 300 block of South Michigan Avenue, according to Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Amina Greer.
Firefighters working from street level and underneath reportedly helped free the woman’s foot using the Jaws of Life to expand the hole until her foot could slide free, the Chicago Tribune reported. Crews worked for around 40 minutes to free her foot.
The woman was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition after the incident, Greer said.
A Streets and Sanitation truck was placed at the hole and repairs are expected to begin Saturday, officials said.
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.
