SAN ANTONIO — Firefighters rescued an injured man, and a woman and a child safely exited on their own, from a Saturday fire that killed another man in a single-story Live Oak house.
Firefighters were dispatched just after 1:30 a.m. to the house in the 7500 block of Wishing Oaks Way, said Gerry Galindo, assistant chief of the Live Oaks Fire Department. Galindo said there were four people in the house who all appeared to be relatives.
Firefighters are still unsure where and how the fire was started, Galindo said.
“The majority of the house was pretty much involved in the fire when we got called out,” he said.
Firefighters had to go through a window to rescue one man, who was hospitalized with burns over 30 percent of his body, Galindo said. The outlook was favorable Saturday that he would survive, Galindo said.
The house is a total loss and the American Red Cross was contacted to provide relocation assistance, Galindo said.
Firefighters from Universital City, Selma, Schertz and Converse assisted in battling the blaze, Galindo 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.
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