OAKLAND — Firefighters rescued a man from a burning room inside a two-story Victorian home that caught fire Friday night, displacing five people, a fire official said.
Crews were dispatched at 7:55 p.m. to the building on the 1500 block of 9th Street near Chestnut Street in West Oakland after someone reported seeing smoke coming from the building, acting Battalion Chief Howard Holt said.
When firefighters arrived, they entered the home and found a man inside a room on the lower floor, fire officials said.
The man was not breathing when he was pulled from the home, but later was breathing on his own, Holt said. The man was taken to a hospital in serious condition.
Firefighters had the blaze under control shortly before 8:30 p.m., officials said, and the Red Cross assisted at least five displaced residents with temporary housing.
Neither the cause or origin of the fire was immediately known, Holt said.
Firefighters were able to contain the blaze to one room inside the home, but the rest of the home suffered smoke damage.
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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