Feb. 14 – Three people were killed and several were injured in a duplex fire in North Minneapolis Friday.
Units were called to the 2800 block of Colfax Avenue N. at 5:01 a.m. and found smoke and fire from the second floor of the 2 1/2-story home.
With reports of people trapped, a second alarm was sounded on arrival.
Firefighters began fire attack efforts and searching the home.
“Under extreme weather and fire conditions, firefighters entered the building to extinguish fire on the second and discovered the fire had extended to third,” Assistant Chief Cherie Penn said.
Five victims were transported to Hennepin County Medical Center and North Memorial Medical Center, and their conditions are not known.
At 5:22 a.m. a third was struck for additional personnel. A total of 40 firefighters responded to the scene.
One firefighter was injured and treated.
Penn said several people were left homeless by the fire.
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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