CHARLOTTE, N.C. – An elderly woman was injured after a fire ripped through her home Monday night.
The fire happened shortly before 9 p.m. Monday on Porter Street.
According to the Charlotte Fire Department, two people were able to make it out safely and alerted firefighters that the woman was still trapped inside.
“Firefighters went to the bedroom window and removed her through the window,” said Captain Rob Brisley with the Charlotte Fire Department.
Brisley tells NBC Charlotte, when crews arrived nearly the entire home was engulfed in flames.
“The firefighters couldn’t rescue her through the front door,” said Brisley.
The victim was transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to Medic.
The cost of the damage is estimated to cost $80,000. Officials believe the fire started in the kitchen after food was left cooking on the stove.
Thirty-five firefighters were able to douse the blaze in less than 30 minutes.
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.
