TRENTON — City firefighters rescued a man who was hanging out of a second-floor window as he tried to escape a fire in a vacant house on Walklett’s Alley last night, officials said.
Heavy smoke was pouring from the house, just off Bayard Street, when firefighters arrived at 10:46 p.m., Battalion Chief Todd Fell said. They rescued the man and doused the fire within 10 minutes.
The man was treated at the scene by Trenton EMS, but it was unclear whether he required further medical attention, officials said, who added it was unclear why he was in the vacant house.
The fire began on the first floor, Fell said, and the cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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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