OSHAWA — A woman is in hospital after being pulled from a burning house without vital signs Thursday night in Oshawa.
It’s believed a smouldering cigarette was the source of the Grenfell Street blaze, which was reported by a neighbour just before 9 p.m., said Oshawa Fire Deputy Chief Steve Boyd.
Firefighters arrived to find a fully involved fire with flames shooting out the front window, he said. Search and rescue team members entered the building in search of an occupant.
“They located a 47-year-old female. She was removed from the house with vital signs absent,” Deputy Chief Boyd said. “En route to hospital she was revived by firefighters and paramedics.”
The woman, who suffered injuries to her upper torso and lungs, remained in intensive care at hospital in Oshawa Friday, he said.
An Ontario Fire Marshal investigator arrived on scene Thursday night and identified what the Deputy Chief described as a preliminary finding of a cause for the fire.
“The suspected cause is careless use or discarded smoking materials,” he said.
No working smoke detectors were found in the residence, Deputy Chief Boyd added.
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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