Police divers have returned to Montrose Harbor, looking for a man believed to have fallen into Lake Michigan with a woman who was rescued early this morning.
The woman, in her 20s, was pulled from water in the 500 block of West Montrose Avenue about 2:05 a.m., authorities said. She was unresponsive and taken to Weiss Memorial Hospital in critical condition.
While emergency crews were on the scene, a witness arrived and said a man had been in the water as well, police said.The witness said the man was wearing a white T-shirt, officials said.
Firefighters and police divers, using a thermal imaging camera, searched the water for a second person but did not find anyone.
The search was called off just before 3 a.m., according to the fire department.
Divers returned later in the morning after determining that the witness was credible, according to Police News Affairs Officer Janel Sedevic.
The water has been too rough for divers, but crews were searching the surface, she said.
Sedevic did not know what the two were doing along the shore
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.
