BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – A woman and her pet dogs were rescued from a house fire in East Bakersfield early Monday morning.
At about 1:20 a.m. Kern County Sheriff’s deputies arrived first to a small home on the 2700 block of Monterey Street for multiple reports of a house fire.
Heavy smoke and flames engulfed the structure and deputies were unable to see inside the windows.
Loretta Pickett, the woman inside, was pulled out of the window. Her two other dogs were found unharmed
Pickett had minor injuries from smoke inhalation.
Kern County firefighters knocked down the fire in 25 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.
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