BRONX, N.Y. (WABC) — Firefighters rescued an 80-year-old man from a fire in his Morrisania high rise building this evening.
The fire broke out at 6 p.m. in an 11th floor apartment at 1175 Findlay Ave.
Battalion Chief Rob Lombardo said firefighters found the man unconscious behind his door from smoke inhalation. He also suffered burns from the fire, which started when a mattress caught fire.
The victim was pulled from the apartment and rushed to the burn unit at Jacobi Medical Center where he is in stable condition.
The fire was contained to the apartment. It is still under investigation.
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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