A husband and wife was transported to Harborview after suffering injuries in a house fire in northeast Seattle.
Following the homeowners directions, firefighters found the man’s wife, 82, unconscious, not breathing and without a heart beat, according to Seattle Fire spokesman Kyle Moore.
Medics administered CPR and were able to resuscitate her before they arrived at Harborview.
While firefighters were rescuing the wife, Moore said the 88-year-old man went into the basement. Firefighters rescued him as well and the man suffered minor smoke inhalation and singed hair.
The woman is in critical condition with life threatening injuries. The man is stable.
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.
