ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – A St. Louis man owes his life to the city’s firefighters who rushed to his burning home last night.
St. Louis Fire Department Captain Dan Sutter says it all began around 7:38 pm Tuesday with a fire call in the 4100 block of Ohio Avenue.
Upon arrival, firefighters found heavy smoke and flames shooting from the rear of the home. They used an outside ladder to get to the man trapped on the second floor because the stairs had burned away.
“They began to revive the unconscious victim and it took a lift to get him down because of his condition and the circumstances, not having a stairwell,” Sutter explained.
Once outside, firefighters revived the man and he was rushed to the hospital.
Officials have not released the name of the rescued occupant or the possible cause of the fire.
The news was less fortunate from another fire on Tuesday. A 51-year-old man was pulled out of a burning home on Plymouth in University City but later died at a hospital.
Investigators believe a space heater may have touched off the deadly blaze.
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.
