SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) – One man is dead and a 7-year-old critically injured in an early morning apartment fire in Shreveport.
KSLA TV reports (http://bit.ly/18d5WgF ) firefighters responded to the fire just before 2:30 a.m. Friday.
Authorities say 30-year-old Antroious T. Kinsey was found dead at the apartment complex. Firefighters say a 7-year-old was revived at the scene and sent to the hospital.
Firefighters say it appears the man went back into the apartment to rescue the 7-year-old but collapsed from the smoke.
Officials say the fire heavily damaged the apartment. The remaining seven apartment units in the building had some fire, smoke and water 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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