An off-duty firefighter rescued a child who fell through an ice-covered pond Friday afternoon in the Andover area in Lexington.
Officials say the boy was rescued by off-duty battalion chief Brian Wood, who was heading to the movies with his daughter near Andover Forest when the call went out about someone falling through the ice in the area.
The firefighter then went to the pond to help rescue the boy, who officials said was stuck in three feet of mud.
Police officers on scene tried to throw a line to the boy, but he couldn’t grab the line because he was too cold. Wood then decided to attach a line to himself and get the boy.
The child was taken to UK Hospital to be checked out.
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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