A worker was rescued after falling aboard a vessel at Fraser Shipyards in Superior on Saturday morning.
Superior firefighters responded at 9:10 a.m. to the John J. Boland, a 680-foot freighter, where a worker had fallen an unknown distance in the forepeak, a fire department news release said.
Crews reached the man, assessed his condition, stabilized him and placed him in a rescue basket, in which he was lifted to the ship’s deck. Then he was lowered from the deck to the waiting ambulance crew on the ground below. The man was taken to an area hospital, the news release said. His injuries didn’t appear to be life-threatening.
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.
This was Superior, WI. Not MI
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