A man was rescued from his Fairfax County apartment after a power strip started a fire Friday morning, fire officials said.
Fire crews were called to The Jefferson Apartment Homes at 6166 Leesburg Pike in Fairfax County at 3 a.m. A second alarm was called to bring more crews to help extinguish the second floor apartment fire.
The man rescued from the affected apartment was taken to the Burn Center at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. There’s no word on his condition at this time.
Officials say an electrical anomaly in a power strip is responsible for the fire, adding a smoke detector inside the apartment did not go off due to a dead battery.
More than 50 fire department personnel, including crews from Arlington County, responded to the fire. The fire caused $25,000 in damage.
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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