COLONIE — A disabled woman remained hospitalized Monday night after being rescued from her Albany Street home earlier in the day, according to Midway Fire Chief Meaghan Sammons.
She said fire crews responded around 7:15 p.m. to a working structure fire and could hear the woman screaming for help when they arrived.
The chief said two assistant fire chiefs, police and a paramedics managed to get the woman out through a door.
“She wasn’t mobile so she wasn’t able to get out of the house,” said Sammons.
The woman was conscious and breathing when she was transported to a local hospital, added Sammons.
She said the woman was apparently cooking a traditional St. Patrick’s Day meal of corned beef and cabbage when she “lost control of the fire.”
There was fire and water damage to the kitchen and the attic, said Sammons.
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.
